became the target of these ready military in shifted off and occupied east jerusalem, a neighborhood you have heard a loss about in the last few weeks, the threats of expulsion of palestinian families from that neighbourhood and reporting on it has become a danger for our own journalists. these pictures only an hour or so ago, just before the sun went down in check. it is 1700 hours g m t. i'm come all santa maria live continuing coverage on al jazeera of events in jerusalem. this saturday events which have targeted us as a media organization, our colleagues and the media as a whole. the pictures you're looking at, we're looking at just a moment ago. there were from shakera where and the journalist giovanni bucetti was assaulted, handcuffed and dragged to a police station by is ready military for no reason. watch these events. hey,

you can see her. we can see the number of is already forces the fair. she had been asked for her id. she said she could go to her car and get then after that we don't know what's happened because it's just, it's deteriorated very quickly. there is javan. in the middle of that scrum, they're being taken away by female members of the israeli military in handcuffs. after being assaulted, they're taken to a police station. initially, her lawyer was not able to speak to denied access. but since the lawyer has been able to make contact with her, have we got some other angles? we do. uh, the pictures have been coming in from mobile phones will wait for these pictures to loop through again. and you'd be able to see giovanni in the middle, they're holding a piece of paper. maybe that is her press credentials, her id. but she is being held by members of the israeli military forcefully there

and has been taken away to awaiting police come a direct attack on us as a media network and on our staff operate in difficult conditions at the best times . and then this sort of thing happens, don't forget what has been going on in this part of the world. recently. we had events in check jet off, had the storming of a lot small school of that leading up to what happened in gaza. 11 days of israeli bombardment on the gaza strip and during those 11 days, remember what happened on may the 15th we're going to try to get those pictures for you from may. the 15th, when al jazeera and other media groups were targeted in garza, remember this, it happened on live television. when israeli strides hits a building and gaza, which house al jazeera, which has the associated press and other local media outlets,

it was destroyed. luckily no injuries or loss of life as these ready military did give a warning prior to the strike to alger, unless to our team there they got out with what little equipment they could. but the building was brought to the ground. israel claimed they were mass elements within that building. there is 0 evidence of that's viewed very much by ourselves and by the associated press as an attack directly targeting the media that was made the 15th so 151618 days ago. maybe a little bit more than that and now in the neighborhood have checked it out with so much attention began. we see these pictures happening please? events happening again, the media targeted a journalist from our own ranks taken away by israeli forces on the phone for us neuro de palestinian political activist with some well reaction to what you're

seeing though you've lived and worked in the territory for many, many years. what's the reaction to what you've thing? well, to be honest with you call it took me awhile to kind of process the picture. is a veteran journalist. she's a dear friend, she's a super colleague and journalist, well known world respect to the cross palestine. she's a juicer le, my and we know that over the years she's been the target of harassment and, and so on, by israeli occupation forces, same as other palestinian journalists. but the, but these, this targeting has increased in the past weeks. and, you know, there's always a lot of concern about reporters, especially those operating and because there's really forces treat them the fair game and to see these pictures to see ought to be taken like that being assaulted

to see her camera man as well under attack. it was, it was heartbreaking to be honest with you and it filled me personally with a lot of anger because this is not how a season a very professional journalist should be treated by anybody. what's also interesting of only really just thought about this, nor is the fact that we're watching this. it happens in broad daylight in front of other media cameras. there is no attempt to hide it. i mean again that, that just part of the, the, the, the environment which you operate in that the, is there any forces do this in the full glare of cameras and the public in the fall? and unity is really no, it can get away with this. it knows that it can spin this and that there will be those unfortunately, who will take this been accepted at face value without questioning these actions

without questioning souls. and that's basically excusing our falls on journalists. we know that, you know, that was to me and journalists are detained regularly. there are several, have a phony in your list now behind is really bars. many of them ones on hunger strike, to process service tension without trials or charge. so this is not an anomaly if you will. this is part and parcel of these really oxidation. usually it does not ground in unity or protected persons like journalists like paramedics and like health workers, the, the protection they need. but it does that consistently and repeatedly because it gets away with it because it phases absolutely no accountability, whether from actions by individual states or the multilateral international level. because there's always someone or some states or states who are willing to provide

it with protection, political and otherwise. ok, nor can you stay on the line because i want you to hear this is, well, i'm being told with bank with water bill. how made correspondence injuries and what are a statement from the police? is that correct? yes, we do have a statement from the police in hebrew, and it says that they have a man and woman in shafter ra, suspecting, harassing the security forces there. that's as much as it says was that would mean anything really harassing? does it use the security forces could be just observing to one of those soldiers that could be absolutely anything. it's quite vague at the moment. now what we know is that the bar is inside that police station is occupied east, jerusalem. she is what we understand all of the statement going to be taken for

further investigation. ok, thank corda, just per 2nd neuro day or 2 on the line listening to that nur as how to points out harassing security forces could mean anything. and you are pointing out before that those sorts of statement can be enough in this environment. they say, well this is what's happening. so this is why we reacted as we did. and we're in the right look good. the idea that a journalist could be harassing is a security forces is ludicrous for anybody who's been on the field. anybody who's reporters working anywhere in the world just in palestine. as you bought, i was wearing clothes that clearly marked her as a journalist. she was doing her job just like many other journalists were there on the ground, who thankfully, were there also to document along with activists. what happened but let me remind

your viewers, raising the palestinian flag is considered an incitement and harassment of israeli occupation soldiers. a few days ago, a 14 year old girl was detained because she had the flag painted on her face in a school activity. so, you know, this is a very elastic statement if you will, and palestinians know it's quite well. and they also know that there have been several complaints lodged against them in international fora, particularly about palestinian journalist and yet not even an investigation was conducted. and so again, this, impunity only allows these assaults to perpetuate, to repeat. and that's why you see them in broad daylight. that's why you see them. so shamelessly doing what repressive governments do assault journalists, assault, those who are there to do their job and tell the truth and communicate to the world

what's happening. unfortunately, this time it was, it was your vote, as you bought, has been along with other journalist from under it and other networks. she's been doing a superb job throughout the month of may and before and after. and she's a powerful of storyteller. she knows how to tell the story of jerusalem, where she grew up. she knows the details and the context of the story, the nuance. and so i think it's her presence that was so upsetting to soldiers because they knew they know that when you write the story you will be told correctly and accurately. and without any embellishment. so when events like this happen, nor obviously we the media make a lot of noise about us and talk about the issues of press freedom and one of our catch cries. of course obviously being that journalism is not a crime, but as you point out,

the statements from the israeli forces and the excuses or reason given are not challenged. why is that and who, who should be challenging them to try to get some reaction from the israelis? i mean, i know that the media of course, challenges the narrative and regrettably, even one the under the building was or the building housing. the the, the offices in gaza was at bob and level, didn't garza, we saw, unfortunately, some in mainstream media in the united states. accepting the spin of the israeli occupation, accepting the accusation, and instead questioning why the associated press and other than others were in that building. instead of talking about the fact that this was a residential building, that it how, how doesn't the family is that it was a hallmark of that neighborhood if you will. and so in addition to the media,

i think and any that in addition to raising awareness and kind of pushing back again, this, this month, that anything, these really army does, must be justified. there has to be international action. there has to be action by states. you know, governments take punitive actions against other governments that qual press freedoms that prosecute and persecute journalists that impose restrictions on freedom. while israel is no different and it's time to see governments taking the same steps they would against any other government that you know, perpetrates. these, these kinds of attacks we don't see that we see an entrenchment of is really exceptionalism, governments bending backwards to try and excuse these kinds of is really transgressions against the journalists against paramedics, against health workers,

against children and other protected population. in order to avoid accountability, and i think that's really the key word in addition to all of us, reaffirming that journalism is not a crime. we need to also talk about accountability because it matters because without it, those who commit crimes will continue to do so. and they will do it with impunity, and they will feel a sense of entitlement almost that they must be allowed to have free reign. they must be allowed to strike whenever they want and not face even verbal criticism. that's what's missing from the equation. accountability, who wrote the palestinian political activist, thank you for your time. your perspective on what it is like to operate in israel and the palestinian territories these days. you without the ra at $1715.00, almost gmc continuing coverage of events in the neighbourhood of shit. shut off in

occupied east jerusalem, where may be little less than 90 minutes ago. we saw these pictures of al jazeera journalist javadoc godaddy. she is in the middle of that scrum, a few like of people that you can see there is ready forces in there. she's being physically man handled. there she had been handcuffed, arrested, and taken away to a police station for no apparent reason. she had been asked to show her id, she told the is ready forces. the id is in the car. she went to get it and then that happened since then. a statement has been put out by the israeli police. have said that they arrested a man and a woman for quote, harrassing, security forces. nothing more specific than that. and that's the

result. giovanni has camera men, i'm sorry, i don't have his name, we'll try and get his name as well. but his gear was thrown to the ground and smashed as well. the media and in particular out of the return was being directly targeted in the neighborhood of chick jet off every 4th that, of course, one of our many journalists operating in israel and the occupied territory. he's on the phone in northern israel, i believe today. hi harry, i guess maybe you can give us a bit of context as well about the reporting you've done recently from those areas from places like shakes at iron and how difficult it has been. well sure, i mean that the issues in 6 years have been brewing for, for some time, and the amount of tension that has been increasing for weeks. and of course we saw it as a contributing factor to the events between israel and hamas in recent weeks. the

11 days of warfare that we saw. and so yes, situation is tense. there we reported from there on one particularly tense day when there was a, a car that drove at speed into the police checkpoint at the top of checks or other . and a number of police officers were injured. and the man driving the car was shot dead . that was a particularly tense moment. and as we arrived we were sort of rushed at by police border security forces in a pretty aggressive way. nothing though, in comparison to what we've just seen on the, on a this evening with which of our up. but there is a strong security presence that and as well as that has been an attempt to stop lucas palestinian journalists from getting into that st. certainly anyone who didn't have a government press office accreditation, but was working as a, as

a journalist in occupied east jerusalem today for to some time they've been treated as just members of the public who have been refused access to that st. unlike residents, especially the jewish is really residents of that street. they have been prevented access at all. when i've been reporting from there that have been some incidents where they're being pretty strong confrontations between protest is and the security forces. and certainly i've been sort of obliquely pushed as i've been trying to cover that. but i haven't been targeted in this kind of a way, seeing, seeing my colleagues just being grabbed and led away in a very full school manner. that's a very different order of says than, than what we've been experiencing ourselves in recent weeks. yeah,

quite extraordinary to watch it, especially when no reason was given. and harry, i'm sure you and all about teams, of course, are properly accredited to be there. have all the necessary paperwork, that's what she was asked for. and yet it's, it's deteriorated so quickly. i mean, it just, it's, it raises a lot of questions about quite simply people being able to do their job. it does. you are supposed to be there as an observer without any hindrance offered to you or put in your way by v as is where the security forces that sometimes work it sometimes doesn't. as i say, i have in the past been sort of pushed around once in another area in the occupied west bank of edwin village. cool. kind of last month when there was a serious threat of its demolition and they were bringing in bulldoze is to prepare

the way for the demolition vehicles again a sort of a time of hyper tension. then there were border security forces there. and as we were trying to film exactly what they were doing by my ambling protested, who are trying to get in front of the bulldozers and prevent that progress again, we were as journalists, very close to events pushed away. and in that instance targeted and pushed very forcefully away, but not arrested, not detained in a police station. just trying to be, as you say, doing, doing our professional jobs of observing events and, and being as close as possible to them. because that's, again, part of the part of the job description is to try and get your camera and yourself into the heart of the action and see for yourself what is going on. and that is supposed to be something that in a public street, in box bodies,

truce them as any credits a journalist you're supposed to be able to do. and so obviously, there are serious questions as to what the pretext, or the reasoning, at least given by the israeli police, is for this. whether it is a case of some kind of deliberate targeting, or whether it is the case of, as we have seen, i have to say in recent weeks, is where security force is very much on edge. and acting in, in a pretty forceful and sometimes rather, rather aggressive way in that area does a colleague of us from cnn reporter, he was told by one policeman that he was allowed to sit on the wall. and then i'm a junior group came up and told him to get off and he protested, said, no, i've been told i can be in this location and found himself very strongly man handled. in fact, he had, as i saw, a few days later, he had his thumb and wrist and a bandaged because of the,

the grip that one of the security forces had used on him with, you know, what seemed to be a pretty deliberate way to inflict pain again, that is pretty unpleasant, that not entirely out with kill to with, with what one would come to expect working in this area. but again, it's not the same as being led away to a police car and now being detained in a police station. okay. harry talk to you again soon. maybe if you do hear anything further from these readies about why they have arrested one of our colleagues, because we would like to know very much what the real reason is. harry forces corresponding on the line that so the pictures you're seeing are of out of 0 correspondence. giovanni godaddy being led away to a police car after being handcuffed and assaulted by is reading forces in the neighborhood of check jet off. this happened probably 90 minutes ago. now,

actually maybe a little more than that coming on for 2 hours ago. her lawyer initially denied access to her when she was taken to that police station, but has now been able to make contact. i've got my own b. shara, as well on the line for some reaction mon, of course, i'll just the senior political analyst and my one is you watch these pictures. it's just so blatant, isn't it? there's no attempt to hide this. we are handcuffing an assaulting a member of the media and taking them away for all the well to say yes it is. you know it's, it's always tragic to see one's colleague, a journalist trying to do their duty and it's order number. it is. in fact, it's a human white journalism. it's not just another question. it is,

it is indispensable with the perfection of human rights for production rights. in general. the fact that journalists, i'll be part of it is, of course, is a crime in and by. so these are the people trying to do job for the public. good. now kamala, as you know, as a lot of our viewers know or just has been targeted all too often. i've. a been in all time with the member since i just see it was, park is not on the egypt. syria is right, but also in iraq, afghanistan, remember we were bomb once up once. you've been recently garza, our offices, bone by these are along with other international media like associate 1st. so i just, you know, has been generally targeted over the last 2 decades. and some of these

colleagues, like you've got a wide or well truly professional journalist. she's been with us for over a decade, working for the same offices. she's probably the most money at the what is there any soldier than anyone else to the fact that our colleagues are doing their jobs are getting punished for it by itself. as i said, a crime. now, not only that, i think it is a bit intimidating, of course, for the rest of our colleagues, for all of us to be subjected to this kind of better for doing our jobs. and that's not fair. as i said, this is also a violation of the cross international one. be that as it may. so this is a day, i must emphasize that we avoid this sort of situation. but at the same time, we try to do our jobs. so when this happens against our will, as journalist, as our journalists do, we wear as

a badge of honor. we weary as a badge of honor because is what it has is 4 years ago or officially joined at the time the lucky that countries for funding for doing our work. so just like the city regime, just like the children, just like the rocks, just like the american professional walk at the time back in 3, we have always had difficult, has heart attack by good yes. layers on the national seems more trying to cover for the time to report the facts that are going on in the ground in the hot spots, but then at least so once again, this is terrible and it must be stop. but at the same time, that's all remember that we just we, we definitely wear this as

a badge of our know that we are definitely doing our job, perhaps better than anyone. i was just about to say that now, and this is a sign and it's not the fun you want to see, but it's a sign that we're doing our jobs properly. if we are there on the ground trying to show you the events that are happening and in this case that of course concerns the palestinian families who are being threatened with 4th eviction from their homes. we are simply reporting on that. if this is the result, then we're on to something. absolutely and, and let's just remember that we are not like any other channels. not like any news on this. what happens when will happen in 2014? we were the only the only television outlet with reporters on the ground on both sides of the war. we weren't gonna report the fax, the fax, as they are. a just putting has

a fax for the southern part of israel, another just call the guys out there live and get was the last 3 or is fine. so we are unique in our coverage of the different part in that at least we covered the water guns over the water and over the egypt as we were always, always, always there on the grounds for instance, dangerous challenges. many of our colleagues were arrested and no part of our colleagues with games like syria. so order no more when we join others, we are a party of join others, but i don't even know your nationality about i don't,

don't have the nationality, but i know that because those things are not working to cover the hot spots, different part of the world we have national agenda, we have no political agenda agenda over certain public trust. the fact that one of our colleagues like is being arrested the way she's been arrested. i don't all the time. this is, this is criminal, this is tragic. once again, i think said that is something like a badge of honor that we were. but this is also something that we will not go down well for these rate. because as every power of any sort, whether them at least or at least try to do this. i just eventually they also pay the price because i just see it off is not something or a news that you can just pick all over. i just get something else. after 25 years

of coverage. i just, you know, english. i got a 7 and a half years of coverage. now we are something else. we are a power or our own. why? because we have credibility. why? because because our world, why, because we owned it, our journalists have that for the rest of the way, the way our offices are bomb. those who do that to us eventually say the price is the public opinion because we are not to be sure that on intimidated or federal rights, we are something of a different breed. we are to join us, trying to do our job. is you want right job? well said now in the shower, our senior political analyst to sum up what my one said there. anyone who tries to silence us clearly hasn't been watching for the last 25 years because we keep going based pictures from occupied east jerusalem check shut off about 2 hours ago when out there. dentist. sorry,

i'm just checking some notes here as well. i've got some notes, i've got another name which i've been looking for. so you've added a daddy is our correspondent who was assaulted and handcuffed and arrested by israeli forces her cameraman, nashville, missouri. we had his, he hasn't been arrested as far as i know, but he certainly had his camera equipment take it. there was pictures he had them taken and smashed on the ground. that's a thought far as we be concerned as well. so that was no bill. miss alley and javan up. but daddy who has been arrested, we have nothing further on why. other than that they have said, these are the police and said she was harassing security forces, which could be open to all sorts of interpretation. her elsa, we got on the phone. we have got maddie m a c c a palestinian human rights activist on the line from occupied.