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BBC Condemns Israel After IDF Soldiers Strip-Searched & Detained Journalists At Gunpoint


The BBC has revealed that three of its journalists, including Feras Kilani, were detained by the Israel Defense Forces while reporting in Syria.

They were in Syria to report on the demilitarised buffer zone seized by Israel following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Kilani described how they were apprehended by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Quneitra city and detained for seven hours. Despite making clear to the soldiers on multiple occasions they were working for the BBC, the behaviour they were subjected to is wholly unacceptable.”

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