A march was launched on Saturday evening in solidarity with the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on the 54th anniversary of the Naksa (setback) in which Israel occupied the West Bank including East Jerusalem in addition to the Gaza Strip Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula.
The Israeli police forcibly evicted dozens of demonstrators who were able to reach Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Occupied Jerusalem.
The occupation police arrested al-Jazeera TV correspondent Givara Budairi while she was covering the events in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Video footage showed the moment of her arrest before she was assaulted and the Al-Jazeera camera was destroyed while the media team was working on covering the events of Sheikh Jarrah.
For his part Hazem Qassem Hamas’s spokesman said in press statements that the arrest of the Al-Jazeera journalist Givara Al-Budairi and beating her and the channel’s crew and the destruction of cameras and equipment confirm the aggressive behavior of the occupation against any means that expose its crimes against Palestinians.
Meanwhile the Jerusalemite lawyer Hamza Quttineh said that the occupation’s attack on journalists exposed its true ugly face before world public opinion.
Quttineh pointed out that the occupation has chosen for itself a new enemy which is the press and media crews in order to terrorize them and discourage them from doing their job.
He underlined that international laws impose on the occupation a minimum level of morals when dealing with civilians and the press in the occupied territories.
