Dozens of journalists Sunday suffered from suffocation after inhaling tear gas fired at them by Israeli forces during a solidarity sit-in in support of injured photojournalist Moath Amarneh, to the north of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Local witnesses told WAFA Israeli soldiers fired a barrage of tear gas bombs towards journalists who organized a sit-in at the northern entrance of Bethlehem city in solidarity with Amarneh, who lost his left eye after being seriously injured by a metallic bullet fired by an Israeli soldier in the Surif region of the Hebron governorate, where he was covering a protest against land confiscation.
Palestinian children from the primary school in Ni'lin, Ramallah, in solidarity with Palestinian photojournalist who was shot directly in the eye with & has now lost his sight#قروب_فلسطيني #GroupPalestine pic.twitter.com/gyGhqrR07L
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Two journalists were detained during the sit-in.
(Wafa, PC, Social Media)
