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Washington Post reporters regain freedom from Israeli police

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Washington Post’s bureau chief William Booth and the newspaper’s West Bank correspondent, Sufian Taha have both been released after they were briefly detained while they were conducting interviews near occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City.

The reporters were accused of incitement Israeli border police when they were  interviewing Palestinian and Israeli residents at Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem.

 
In a released statement about their detention, the Foreign Press Association in Israel (FPA) said Booth and Taha were taken to a police station and held for about 40 minutes before being released.
Continuing, the FPA said their detention came in the context of “heavy-handed tactics” – including what it described as violent attacks by border police against foreign journalists and their Palestinian colleagues covering unrest in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Speaking on the incident, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, called it “a regrettable incident” and praised Booth as “an excellent journalist”. The ministry would ask the police to clarify the incident, he said.
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