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Reuters. 30 September 2002. Israeli troops seize Reuters tape of clashes. NABLUS -- Israeli soldiers confiscated video footage taken by a Reuters cameraman of clashes on Monday between troops and stone-throwing Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus. An Israeli army spokesman acknowledged that troops manning a military checkpoint outside Nablus had acted against army regulations when they seized the videotape, and said all efforts were being made to return it. Hassan Titi, a Nablus-based cameraman working for Reuters, went to the checkpoint to pass his videotape to an Israeli driver on the other side so that it could be taken to the Reuters bureau in Jerusalem. Titi had just finished filming a confrontation in Nablus, in which medical officials said a 10-year-old boy was killed and more than 20 other youths were wounded. Troops refused to allow the handover and instead confiscated the tape. Titi and other Palestinian journalists working for foreign news organisations are mostly barred from passing through a network of checkpoints which Israeli forces have set up in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Reuters has protested to the army that such restrictions hamper the dissemination of news. Media watchdog groups have frequently charged the Israeli army with harassing journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ##### ##### ##### ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ##### ##### ##### ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
