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Rabat – Moroccan journalist Feiza Ben Mohamed has been receiving death threats from Israelis over her pro-Palestine stance.
The journalist, who currently works for the Turkish Anadolu Agency, posted on X a series of audio files from phone calls she received on her number, where speakers threatened to “bury her in a Hamas tunnel.”
Depuis 24h, mon numéro personnel circule sur des boucles Telegram d’extrémistes israéliens en raison de mes prises de position sur la Palestine. J’ai reçu plus d’une cinquantaine d’appels, avec ordre de « ne plus parler d’Israël », des menaces de viol, ou encore des injures et… pic.twitter.com/5nNGYYs2x4
— Feïza Ben Mohamed (@FeizaBM) November 9, 2023
“I’ve received over fifty calls, with orders to ‘stop talking about Israel,’ threats of rape, insults and promises of extermination,” she wrote.
In the post, Ben Mohamed shared her experience saying that some Israelis have actively doxxed her pretending to be deliverymen in an attempt to get her gate code.
“Others want to bury me in a Hamas tunnel, or promise to inflict the worst abuse on me to the accompaniment of Hebrew songs,” she adds.
She concluded her post with: “I leave you to listen and admire what the Israeli far right is capable of, with complete impunity in our country.”
As Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians continues, videos of Israeli police threatening journalists have been going viral on the internet.
Ben Mohamed is not an isolated case, as since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, journalists – especially Arab ones – have been attacked and intimidated while covering the developments on the ground.
One Al Arabi journalist was reporting live when an Israeli police officer interrupted his reporting and threatened him that he “would be in trouble” if he didn’t say that all Hamas should be “slaughtered.”
The officer faced the camera directly and said: “We’ll turn Gaza into dust”
In a separate incident, an RT journalist said: “I’ve been working 14 years in the press and ten years with RT and in very bad situations, also in, like, zero-point confrontation lines. But this is the first time I feel that the freedom of the press is at stake here. There is no freedom of the press.”
In addition, Israel is systematically targeting pro-Palestine activists. In late October, the Guardian reported that two activists from a Jewish-Arab peace movement were detained in Israel for holding up posters with a message that the police deemed to be offensive.
The message was: “Jews and Arabs, we will get through this together.”
The Guardian report maintains that the case of the two activists is not an exception as people across Israel are being detained, fired from their jobs, and even attacked for expressing pro-Palestine sentiments.
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