but we need to do that because without accountability, this will only get worse and we've seen it getting worse and worse over the past weeks and months here in palestine. that is neuro day palestinian political activists with us on skype from ramallah in the occupied west bank. this saturday. no to thank you so much for your time. i'm sure we'll talk to you again. later on it is 1800 hours gmc here on al jazeera can all santa maria with continuing live coverage of our breaking news out of occupied east jerusalem. where an al jazeera journalist has been arrested by is ready forces for no reason javadoc. daddy was in the middle of this scrum of people, there was beaten, and then arrested in the neighbourhood of chick get off. she had been doing live reports for our sister channel al jazeera arabic throughout the day, reporting on events there shaped jet off. as you will know,

a flash point in recent days, actually recent weeks and months over the plans to evict palestinian families from their homes. they forced evictions, which i currently before the courts, and then we see these pictures of one of our own, giovanni burdette being led away after being abused and arrested by as ready forces . hopville homemade is now outside the police station in occupied east jerusalem. which of all has been taken good evening. hodder. bring us up to date. well, the driver is still inside. we actually just spoke to her lawyer in how do near him . now he told me he told us at the, at the beginning device was being accused of hitting or pushing a female soldier than when, because of the videos that exist because everything really went live on television

and was film the lawyer has provided the video. so those charges have now been back down. she is now in interrogation. i also the lawyer that was normal procedure. you said yes that he is not allowed to do that interrogation, but certainly that heavy charges that she has actually hit or pushed as female. so germs are gone according to the lawyer that she's still in there. we don't know if she's going to release being released tonight or tomorrow. we still don't know the rest of what is happening inside. so to be clear, how did you are was arrested for something which was disproven just by the video which everyone was watching. i am just trying to point out how and i've used this word a lot today. how blazing did all that. all of this is happening in front of the cameras, and yet she was charged with something that didn't happen. and you can see on the camera that it didn't happen. yes,

absolutely. she was charged with something that she did not do. actually, even when i was speaking to missouri, it was the camera man who was with her on duty today. he had clearly told me that when they asked for that press because she didn't even have the time to go and get that press guard that she was pushed against the wall. immediately. hank of the drag to the car. now when you're out of the police station, apparently at the beginning they were quite aggressive with her the that the accusation or the allegation was that she had actually push to shove a female soldier. but then when those videos surfaced, when that when the, when those videos with display by the lawyer to do, to those interrogating her inside that those charges they back down from those charges. now she's going through this interrogation a pay that normal procedure. we just have to see what will happen next. what is she

going to be released tonight? whether they're going to keep her in detention until tomorrow morning. what, how is this is going to evolve, but certainly that initial, very serious allegation and accusation is gone according to the lawyer then back. and that is back to the multitude of videos that exists about what happened during when, when all of this is really old site. ok. you were out there i believe earlier today which of our, with our other teams in check what you're reporting on today. well that was a protest solidarity really of the families and shifts that have been that affected with force expulsion from there. hope that is something that has been happening quite quite on a regular basis, especially on the weekends. it was a very peaceful protest. devorah was standing there and she was reporting at

a certain point. everybody moved past that checkpoint toward the houses of those families were facing eviction. and then everybody move back, but nothing was really happening. it was actually one of those days where the military didn't immediately lose its station and fire a sudden grenade and rubber bullets. usually what that is, what they do the crack can be needed and brutal a really even if it's the protesters, a handful. i mean, i've been to protest there where you have said 1520 young people chanting slogan, the new the crack sound is actually quite surprising when none of that was happening today. so it's not really clear why did decided to go to laura why they decided that she, that they had to read that all of that had to happen. but what i can tell you those . i mean, i have seen that over and over again. those female or male soldiers were standing

there. these protests have very little patience with any kind of palestinian protest. it can be a small group of people, they will immediately crack down and with them, the journalist i have seen more than. busy one journal is being pulled and stuff them taken away. targeted with that is happening more and more often here and by east jerusalem. and i have to add one thing that the lawyer also told us that when she was taken in the car, in the police car while she was being driven away, she was actually ma'am, handled by those who were surrounding her and that car hotel. i was surprised watching the video to see the number of israeli forces who were there, but you were saying earlier that actually that's not uncommon. that is not a comment that happens all the time. and i agree with you. it is surprising.

sometimes you see a young teenager, all of a sudden it's surrounded by 4567 of these big adults pushed against the wall. i think is one that is the tax that you hear. it's overpowering one person with a much larger group of people who are, you know, armed all also fido power on them, who are strong and trained. that is the taxes all the time. and that is exactly what happened to devora. but if you walk around the old city, you see that unfolding, just like that, sometimes with no particular reason. it is something that anyone living in august, but these jerusalem has grown acquainted with these all the time. that's just the way it is really extraordinary. thank you. bill how made corresponding outside the police station and occupied east jerusalem, where another al jazeera journalist giovanni today is being held for

apparently harassing israeli security forces. they claimed that she hit out at a female israeli officer, but then of course, all the video which we see shows otherwise. let's have a look at the things as a new angle. let's have a look. i was hoping that base some sound effects on there, but no, but look, this is so let me clear that she is being manhandled by his ready forces is trying to get free as she would. this is after being off to show her her id, her purse credentials. a camera just moved away at the last 2nd there, unfortunate. and then you can see jack being forcibly taken away to a waiting police car. and then on to the police station where we just saw hodder these pictures on loop. know ok, maybe we can run them again in a 2nd. we'll let 1st will on the cat on the ground, you can see the camera belonging to be on my way to the camera. men who camera was

smashed by forces and their leaves, or they goes the, it's really a police cruiser taking rivera away to the police station on chaos. it seems the cost of them and all these different camera angles that we keep saying this is come from a mobile phone. i'm going to assume that there's plenty of television cameras and media cameras there as well. capturing all of this happening and yet it happens, all of them. yeah. that i'm looking at in full view to look if i can put it that way. here's another angle. you can see this is the main one we've been showing. if javan video al jazeera just being taken away by israeli military forces, all of this happening in the neighborhood of chick euro, which you will have heard about a lot in the last month or so, starting with the issue of forced evictions. the threat of forced evictions of palestinian families from their homes an issue which we should point out is still

before the courts and has not been ruled on. so there is nothing compelling anyone to be leaving checked off at the moment. ah, that of course they lead to tension up alex or mosque, which in turn led to what we saw happen in gaza. the 11 day bombardment of garza by israeli miller. true. well let's not forget the media with target it again. i don't know if we've got those pictures to show you again, but it's always good to remind you of what happened on may. the 15th, when this building was destroyed in an israeli as strike, the building that housed al jazeera, which held the associated press number of other media outlets. it was taken to the ground in an israeli as strike. no debts, no injury. thankfully, that's after these rarely military warned people in the building that it was about to be targeted because they claimed they were mass elements within that building. no evidence of that whatsoever. and half an hour later that building was leveled by

an israeli, as strike our offices, those of the circulated press and others completely destroy. i just feel that is worth showing you again and reminding you of the context of attacks on the media just in the last. well this was may 15th, so only few a few weeks. and now we see one of our journalists in occupied east jerusalem doing her job and being arrested for it's mowing. shara are you there now? and our senior political analyst, and i can see you now. i had you on the phone before he's on skype. now, from paris, good to see you. my one bo unfortunate to be talking to you under these circumstances . i don't know if you'd heard hodder earlier, but she was saying that the social charge against giovanni, which was harassing israeli security forces and apparently a sole thing, a female police officer or military officer. i mean, it's been disproven by the pictures that we have seen from the outset. the whole

it's all trumped up, quite frankly. well, actually, i don't need to see the pictures. i know you got them where they are well enough throughout the years. the know that this is not the kind of journalist she is and that she has been harassed over the years on many occasions. that's not her style. i'm not, i'm not sure exactly what happened, but in terms of judge of character. well, i'll tell you, i'll take you out with that. he's testimony, any time of the day and the year over any is right, a soldier. be that female or male soldier? that's one thing. the other thing is, i mean, come on. let's just look at the this symmetry of all of this. we have the israeli army, israeli military for the last several weeks months. well, there are several decades if the world has been pressing hold people and we as journalists ribbon just simply trying to cover the story. and yes,

will be tried to cover the story from both sides of the conflict that one could call it, that although it is as everyone knows, are struggling colonial situation. but be that as it may, we've been trying to do our job. and because that's what we are meant to be doing over there. so the fact that one, again, if one you, if you want to call it that, a female journalist doing her job, of course, unarmed, of course, professional of course, has been doing that for over to be treated this way, is nothing but repression is nothing but intimidation is nothing but kettle rising and silencing what we do and what we do is i must say we are just 2nd to none in terms of covering the hot spots of them, at least in fact, the world. i mean, who else covers latin america, africa, asia, even europe, like we have done over the past several years and certainly we have been the

professional 2nd to none. israel side because like, know, either we have covered the so called story story that's right. should be from both sides of the conflict. and our journalists have been stand up journalists throughout. and they have been intimate in the past. and our journalists are colleagues and other parts of them, at least where, where we're imprisoned as well. what are asked to wait for long periods of time. our officers are, you were just saying earlier, where bonds. so, you know, we've been that we've seen that happen to us, but we're not going to be started. and i must add one thing since we talked last back. i'm sure that no one mistaken us. you know, our mega phone as al jazeera network is louder than any gun than any tank then. and any, any, any fight. we're not going to be intimidated. we're not going to be silence and the

world will hear what happens to our colleagues because we want to continue to dollar job. we don't want to be silence. now one israel often styles itself as i'm using their words here, the only true democracy in the middle east. and as i was saying to nora day before they do issue press credentials. i mean this is what javan was being asked to show you. there are government press office credentials that are issued why credential journalists to report. if you just going to shut them down. you know, i want to say 2 things about this one. just to remind our viewers around the world is warehouses. it was blockaded by number of countries, not exactly famous for their human rights record is joined. the freight and the clothes are our offices temporarily at the time. but of course, there was enough international pressures including from their best friends in

western capitalism be eventually opened up. and the, as you said, the issue, the licenses and we are doing our job. but in terms of the one and only democracy, at least 1st of all, this is absolutely false. stephen within is just but you know, i have been trying to study, learn, teach myself about, you know, how have the western public opinion understood the last several weeks of you know, israeli oppression the war and goes out the depression in jerusalem. the attempts to ethnic cleansing and so forth. and i think one of the you sounding conclusions i've heard, and i've heard this from already 3 different capitals in europe, that they all all see israel, palestine as a one state paradigm. so the idea that is you can claim that it's one, not only democracy, in fact it's a jewish nic system to be doing whatever it wants to

do in 32 years that has been occupying for over 5 decades. this is no longer going down when even among its friends in europe and in the united states. people understand all to where that its occupation is, is longer than its independence. meaning it was independence from 4077. and since then it's been occupying over 5. beckett, so we all understand that in terms of that's the reality in israel palestine is an occupying power. is not a democracy, is the right is a colonial secular state is not a democracy and these things are not warrant. i am using myself. i am quoting or paraphrasing the experts, the think tankers here that i've spoken to over the last couple of weeks in europe is right, is not seen anymore as the so called one i don't want to democracy, it is seen as

a repressive system that is oppressing the indians that there's one bargaining done that is imprisoning them, that is incarcerating graham and so on, so forth. certainly violating their rights and we meet. yeah. because that is what we were talking about. we didn't me that i don't me just i just because just like what, how do i was talking earlier. i saw most images of our colleagues from c. i'm not being pushed on shut down the gym system as well, several days ago. so this is not about us. i mean we, we have talked about associated press building being bomb, just like our office where the bomb in gaza. so we are talking about the rights of journalists. and yes, especially, i'll just thank you mo and shara, our senior political analyst with us from paris today watching the same pictures that you've been watching of an al jazeera journalist, being arrested by is ready forces in the neighborhood, have checked it off for no reason. certainly no good reason. they claimed that she

was the one harassing security forces herself. this what the police had said that she was apparently assaulting a female soldier there which is easily disproved by the pictures that you've seen. and that's the charge claim has already been dropped. so now we wait for her release from that police station. there is no indication of when that will happen. unfortunately, i want to take you back to an earlier conversation i had with maddie. i'm a fi fi, she's a palestinian human rights activist. someone who has been arrested herself by as ready forces. she says these ready government is simply trying to silence john. they would give any acquisitions they want, but when they came to i did, you bought it? i was that that was what they were saying is that you're not allowed to credit. you

are not allowed to use your forms and they started getting forms like not only you, but they started complex, getting forms from the people protesting and standing there saying that you're not allowed to, to, to not the last big videos of us. and, and she was, she's a prayer, she's like the canada man who was motto, they broke his cabinet and then and then they edited. you bought the, her, grew to the, they drag the street. they were kicking her while she was, they were, it was pretty good and like they were totally in the way they teach with us like we couldn't do anything. we had other people with you via the one to refuse to give their phone. but they said like, we don't, we don't want you to send what's going on. we don't want you to take the videos of what's going on. so yeah, that's what's happening and,

and they start kicking us out of the neighborhood. but we, we keep, we find ways to come back again and that's what's happening now. we're still protesting here. they will learn from time to time. they will come with us or do you drag us away? but we keep on protesting, we keep on waiting, and she will the issues of false expulsions from check gera. it's still before the court. susan said it's not, nothing's been decided. so as far as anyone's concerned, the families who live in checks that are, and the people, the journalists who come there and work there are all very much allowed to still be there. right? exactly. and basically it should, the other ones that for i don't months now. and then without like a course decision, like they call a court decision which is illegal. you cannot deny people from entering or moving

inside their own country and so on, inside their own neighborhood. you cannot deny their movement, you cannot control that. and this is why the competition for confiscating anyone who is taking video of that we're telling you what's going on because they don't want the work to know at to see what's happening. and she can run because we like the propaganda and then you polish we actually we don't have a poet for re present of our stories and voices. so we use that individual, we use it, it's do our phones and through our candidates and through the producers like, like, i'm present, there's like you bought. this is why they want to silence. i would keep the silence i would code so those are the ease of mary. i'm

a 50 percent human rights activists speaking too early. now one of the points have been making for the last couple of hours now is the fact that the arrest of an al jazeera journalist in check it out has happened pretty much on live television. certainly in front of a bunch of live cameras minus our own camera, which was smashed by the israeli forces there. so with the number of different angles of the incident that we've seen coming in, we've found one which shows as much of the incident as possible. i'm going to play it for you in full with full sound. i would the the the the,

the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the right. so you thought for yourself there. let's play it again. this is a journalist. i'll journalist. is that

a woman who is harassing israeli security forces or who is being harassed by them? you can hear shouting, don't touch tele, don't touch. and then i think this moment is telling someone putting down the camera because i don't want they don't want us to see this, but it is clear as day, high definition pitches, no grainy, mobile phone picture here. this is the gentleman being assaulted by the forces of these railey governors. the been controversial, isn't it? the fact that she had been charged with harassing the sources itself when it is the exact opposite. because the incident, let's not forget, she was in hands and been taken away to

a police car taken to a police station where she wasn't allowed to see her lawyer. she has now the lawyer . she is still in there. not charged with anything. i find this absolutely astonishing, and i'm sure anyone who is an advocate of press freedom anywhere in the world will find it pretty astonishing as well. today. i don't know if you can see the pictures . i know you're on the guide, but i don't if you've got the chain along in the background, but it's just about the fearless, tireless journalist who's been doing this for many, many years. she's faced up many situations where she was intimidated where she was under threats, where, where her life was in danger because she was doing her job. and this is the latest

incident, but to see it and to hear it it's it's something else. this is, this is 11 for those who know her who's very is it. she's a very strong lady. but she's also very kind person to hear you got a screaming like that defending herself defending her right. not to be touched and men handled and assaulted the way she was just for doing her job is in theory and it should be very upsetting to anybody with an ounce of integrity, especially those who are her colleagues around the world. this is not normal, it's unacceptable. it's inexcusable. there is absolutely no reason to justify assaulting a journalist just for doing their job. and that's exactly what's happened with the border and her camera. he want to just pause for

a 2nd. no or no. this is difficult here. just hold on a 2nd for me. i'll just have a look at the pictures again cuz i'm actually trying to count or we can this. or can we go back to, let's fix it. i can things. now, i can count 123, probably at least for at least 4 is ready and we call them soldiers that distance police on their guess we say police, but at least 4 of them surrounding her handcuffing here. we're trying to hang note there, the handouts are on, at this point. they are fully kicked it out with their protect. i'm sorry, the woman on the left, they just threw a punch effectively. at vara, there she just hit her. so the fact of our is trying to get away and his shouting, don't touch, don't touch is a completely normal reaction. when a police officer has just hit you and then the hand going over the camera newer,

that's the bit which, which gets me well, i mean there's so much to get you. but i think if you're putting your hand over a camera than you're trying to stop the wilson seeing something. absolutely. and that's why she, she also at the end shots and she says enough, she hancock, she's very, an absolute control. but the beating the, you know, blacking out of cameras, they don't want this to be see, they know how to just what they're doing is even though they know that they will get away with it. but they still know just how outrages it is they know the reason why this is happening. they do this to intimidate other journalists. they do this to make journalists come to 10 before they attempt to cover events that are knowing that they might face of the same circumstance. giovanni, or even worse, as he bought a work for an international network like else the. there are dozens of journalists

who work for local, much in jerusalem. they will not receive the same attention. and many of them have already been our folks that i'm detained in the past. over the, the month of may, we seen several cases of detention of palestinian journalists in the west bank. one of the mac cameron men for a pen. arab news outlet is still in jails, not space charge or trial. and that just tells you that it doesn't matter what you've done as a journalist, if you're palestinian, as far as israel is concerned, throwing you up and in jail and throwing away the key. locking you up and throwing away the key is doable. it's possible and very little will be done about it. that to me is extremely infuriated. knowing that this keeps repeating, that you.