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Palestinian Media Forum condemns arrest of Journalist


The Palestinian Media Forum strongly condemned the arrest of the Jerusalemite photojournalist Iyad Rifai by the Israeli forces after raiding his house in Jerusalem.

The forum said in a press release on Wednesday that the occupation forces arrested a journalism student at Al Quds University and the trainee at “Hona al-Quds” Media network, the photographer Iyad Rifai, 20, after raiding his house in the town of Anata east of occupied Jerusalem.

Iyad was recently preparing to display the movie “7300 days of absence”, he participated in acting in the movie which was about a young photojournalist who wants to visit Jerusalem, which he did not visit since more than 20 years.

The Forum stressed that the arrest of the journalist Rifai is part of the arrest campaign waged by the occupation forces against Palestinian journalists and media workers and in the context of escalating its campaign against journalists, through arresting and persecuting them, and targeting the Palestinian media institutions.

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