Muhannad Tutunji, Haitham Abudiab and their BBC Arabic team were driving to a hotel when their car was intercepted.
They were dragged from the vehicle - marked “TV” in red tape - searched and pushed against a wall.
A BBC spokesperson said journalists “must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely”.
Mr Tutunji and Mr Abudiab said they identified themselves as BBC journalists and showed police their press ID cards.
While attempting to film the incident, Mr Tutunji said his phone was thrown on the ground and he was struck on the neck.
“One of our BBC News Arabic teams deployed in Tel Aviv, in a vehicle clearly marked as media, was stopped and assaulted last night by Israeli police. Journalists must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely,” a BBC spokesperson said.
The BBC has contacted Israeli police for comment.
In so many ways, this attack was Israel’s 9/11. Evidently up-to-and including harassing peaceful Arabic people doing nothing suspicious.
Yepp! Now they get carte blanche to do their desired genocide and ethnic cleansing and media intimidation/narrative supplement.
I mean, if they were looking to do a genocide I don’t think they’d bother to use precision strikes, warming knocker bombs, and tell civilians to flee.
Seems to me Hamas with their rhetoric of ending Israel and killing all Jews are the genocidal part. Don’t want to see what would happen if they had the military Israel has.
Make no mistake, Israel is still an apartheid state run by awful people, but this is not genocide. This is trying to minimize casualties in an urban combat situation.
They do that so they can justify it afterwards. Warnings dont do anything because the people in Gaza can’t leave and Israel knows this. It’s by design after all.
They’re not being told to leave Gaza as a whole, they’re being told to leave the urban areas where Hamas are holed up to avoid civillains caught in the crossfire.
I know, but where are they supposed to go? The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated places on earth. Hamas is everywhere in Gaza. The initial deadline of 24 hours was even more impossible. These are not accidents, Israel knows this.
Israel has killed full Palestinian families in Gaza. This isn’t people “caught in the crossfire”. This is Israel bringing the crossfire to their beds and homes. This is Israel’s continuing ethnic cleansing.
The IDFs playbook seems awful bad at minimizing casualties.
While I don’t know about precision strikes, they haven’t been warning civilians before striking these past few days, and in fact many times designated an evacuation destination and bombed it. And don’t get me started on the white phosphorus. They’re definitely not avoiding civilian deaths (I mean why would you try to avoid the deaths of “human animals”). Oh, and I don’t see how holding journalists at gunpoint has anything to do with minimizing casualties.
Israel has been genocidal for a while now, but they’ve been going full holocaust recently.
That’s up to history, sadly, whether it’s genocide or not. Genocide has many characteristics, it’s not only killing a population by guns or other means.
The definition of genocide does not care about the means, only about the goal or result.
you forgot the part where they bombed the only exit out.
Genocide seems to have lost any kind of definition in the modern age, just like nazi and fascist have over the last decade when they’re thrown at everything people don’t like.
Can I ask who it was that decided to make “Israel’s 9/11” the official slogon of the last week?
random arabs are Israel’s version of America’s sikhs I guess?
Because Hamas would never think to slap a sticker on a car saying TV to get though checkpoints with bags of weapons would they?
Nice whataboutism you got there, it would be a shame if that’s a bad way to lead an argument.
Because Hamas would never think to slap a sticker on a car saying TV to get though checkpoints with bags of weapons would they?
This kind of talk is being used to excuse all sorts of attacks against the Press and Palestinian civilians.
Maybe Israel doesn’t want any press…
Please point to any white journalists that have been blown up, shot or pulled from vehicles by the Israeli army and you might have an argument.
As it stands you have none.
How many white members of Hamas do you think there are?
Man are you still going? Maybe you should go outside for a walk or something, you’ve been on this soapbox of anger for days now.
I ask for proof and you ask a question in response.
You don’t seem to know how to carry on a conversation.
This is terrifying, I’m glad the BBC published it
