PNN – The arrest of a reporter for Al-Mayadeen Network in the occupied territories has met with strong reactions from international and Palestinian and Lebanese press circles.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing the Mayadeen news website, the Palestinian Resistance Committees announced that they strongly condemn the Zionist regime’s action in arresting Mayadeen network reporter Nasser Al-Laham and declare their full solidarity with this journalist and Mayadeen network.
The statement adds that the arrest of Al-Laham and the destruction of the contents of his home demonstrate the extent of this regime’s fear and terror and their vengeful activities against the occupiers.
The statement emphasized that the arrest of Al-Laham is a desperate and fruitless policy by the Zionist regime and could destroy the truth that Al-Mayadeen represents.
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The resistance committees have called for serious action by Arab and Islamic press unions and institutions, and the United Nations, in condemning this crime.
Hezbollah in Lebanon also issued a statement expressing its full solidarity with Al-Laham, Al-Mayadeen Network, and all journalists who live in the heart of danger to convey the truth, calling this act another crime against journalists.
Joseph Qaseifi, secretary of the Lebanese Journalists Syndicate, also responded to the Israeli regime’s attack on the Lebanese journalist, saying that Israel has increased its attacks on journalists and restrictions on them, especially against networks that collect documentation of their crimes.
The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement also strongly condemned the arrest of a Lebanese journalist from the Al-Mayadeen network in occupied Palestine, calling this action a demonstration of the criminal and terrorist nature of the Zionist regime.
This movement also announced its solidarity with Al-Mayadeen Network and its arrested journalist, emphasizing that the new Zionist action against Al-Mayadeen Network shows that the network is on the right path.
The management of Al-Mayadeen Network also issued a statement describing the arrest of its journalist as brutal and repressive, emphasizing that Shin Bet elements ransacked Nasser Al-Laham’s home, destroyed his electronic equipment, and confiscated his personal phones.
The statement called for immediate action by the Palestinian and Arab journalist community in expressing solidarity with the journalist, emphasizing that he was a professional journalist who cared about the rules and customs of journalism and pursued his role in conveying the facts in a professional manner.
Al-Mayadeen thanked and appreciated all those who expressed solidarity with Nasser Al-Laham and the Al-Mayadeen Network in this incident, and stated that he would spare no effort to defend him in international circles.