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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Palestinian journalists detained at military checkpoint

Katherine Orwell, IMEMC
Israeli forces detained five employees that were a part of a TV crew of the Watan Media Center at a military checkpoint close to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday.

The Watan center said that the soldiers held its crew at the checkpoint near the city of Surda, confiscated their camera equipment and forced them to sit on the ground.


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