Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul has been released after being arrested for 12 hours by Israeli forces in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.
Al-Ghoul was at al-Shifa early on Monday with his crew and other reporters to cover the Israeli army’s fourth raid into the hospital, where thousands of civilians are trapped, including medical staff, patients and displaced families.
Al-Ghoul told Al Jazeera after his release that Israeli forces destroyed media equipment and arrested journalists gathered in a room used by media teams. He said the journalists were stripped of their clothes and forced to lie on their stomachs as they were blindfolded and their hands tied.
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Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, has served as a base for journalists to report on Israel’s more than five-month war on the Palestinian enclave.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah, said al-Ghoul was tortured, beaten and detained by the Israeli military along with his crew member on the ground.
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