The occupation forces attacked Al-Jazeera correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul while he was covering developments in the Al-Shifa Complex in Gaza City (Al-Jazeera)
Al Jazeera Media Network demanded the immediate release of its correspondent in Gaza, Ismail al-Ghoul, and the journalists detained with him, and held the Israeli occupation army responsible for their safety.
The network said, in a statement, that on Monday, the occupation forces attacked its correspondent, Ismail al-Ghoul, while he was carrying out his journalistic work, then arrested him and destroyed broadcast vehicles and photography equipment.
Our colleague Al-Ghoul was arrested from inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, while he was covering developments in the occupation’s storming of the complex this morning.
Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation army severely beat Al-Ghoul and a number of colleagues in the press staff working with him before arresting them.
The occupation forces also destroyed the broadcast vehicles belonging to the press crews at the Shifa Medical Complex.
Journalist Mahmoud Aliwa, who is in the Al-Shifa Complex, said that the occupation soldiers beat Al-Ghoul and the crew working with him, forced them to take off their clothes, and then took them to an unknown destination.
Al Jazeera Network said, in its statement, that this targeting is “another attempt by the occupation army to intimidate journalists to prevent them from reporting the horrific crimes it is committing against innocent civilians in Gaza.”
The network confirmed that what colleague Ismail Al-Ghoul was subjected to came within a series of systematic targeting of Al-Jazeera by the occupation authorities, which included the assassination of colleagues Sherine Abu Aqla, Samer Abu Daqqa, and Hamza Al-Dahdouh, the bombing of its office in Gaza, the deliberate targeting of a number of its journalists and their family members, and the arrest and intimidation of its crews in the field. .
Al Jazeera condemned the ongoing crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against journalists and media professionals in Gaza, and renewed its demand for the need to immediately stop these attacks.
Source: Al Jazeera