Journalists at the Jerusalem holy site documented police arbitrarily denying access, delivering beatings, and firing on reporters with rubber-coated bullets.
Israeli police target Palestinian journalists at Al-Aqsa Mosque
Journalists at the Jerusalem holy site documented police arbitrarily denying access, delivering beatings, and firing on reporters with rubber-coated bullets.
Israeli police beat Palestinian journalist Ahmad Gharabli at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, on May 21, 2021. (Suliman Khader)
On May 7, as tensions mounted in Jerusalem, a Palestinian photojournalist at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in the Old City, trained his video camera on an Israeli police officer. The police had begun their incursions into the site as protests against evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem were growing. The Palestinian journalist at Al-Aqsa filmed as the police officer yelled a threat “One more time and I’ll break your cameras get out!” then lunged, causing the journalist to drop their camera.
Compare the missile strikes during the recent round of fighting as seen and heard on the ground in Gaza versus the images released by the IDF Spokesman
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Turkey: Erdogan Sues Politician for Comparing Him to Netanyahu
21 May 2021
Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the head of a rival political party for referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “the Israeli version of Erdogan.”
Erdogan, who has a long record of antisemitic remarks and recently called for the creation of a multinational Muslim army to attack Israel, called Iyi Party leader Meral Akşener’s comments “immoral” and “shameless” prior to new surfacing that he is demanding 250,000 lira – nearly $30,000 – from Akşener for her remarks, according to Turkey’s
Hurriyet‘s report did not specify what Erodgan is suing for, but “insulting the president” is a crime in Turkey punishable by both civil litigation and jail time. Erdogan has taken to using the legal provision with increasing frequency in the past decade against political opponents, both professional politicians and private