02:40Al Jazeera journalist Givara Budeiri was released by the Israeli police several hours after she was arrested while covering a protest in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood on Saturday.
"They came in an aggressive way, they asked for my press card, they didn't give me time and started kicking me with their feet and pushed me from the back. Then they pushed my arm aggressivly to the back to put the handcuffs. Afterwards they dragged me to the police car and there the assault was harsher," Budeiri commented on her arrest.
During the incident officers also pushed cameraman Nabil Mazzawi whose equipment was apparently destroyed.
The police said they arrested two suspects 'for assaulting officers after they refused to identify themselves.'
"They knew and watched me as I passed in front of the same soldiers more than 20 times and we were on air with Al Jazeera 4 times, so they knew my identity," said Budeiri.
The arrest of the reporter was condemned by the Qatar-based network and international media watchdogs.
East Jerusalem: Al Jazeera journalist Givara Budeiri released hours after arrest by Israeli police in Sheikh Jarrah
Al Jazeera journalist Givara Budeiri was released by the Israeli police several hours after she was arrested while covering a protest in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood on Saturday.
"They came in an aggressive way, they asked for my press card, they didn't give me time and started kicking me with their feet and pushed me from the back. Then they pushed my arm aggressivly to the back to put the handcuffs. Afterwards they dragged me to the police car and there the assault was harsher," Budeiri commented on her arrest.
During the incident officers also pushed cameraman Nabil Mazzawi whose equipment was apparently destroyed.
The police said they arrested two suspects 'for assaulting officers after they refused to identify themselves.'
"They knew and watched me as I passed in front of the same soldiers more than 20 times and we were on air with Al Jazeera 4 times, so they knew my identity," said Budeiri.
The arrest of the reporter was condemned by the Qatar-based network and international media watchdogs.
Al Jazeera journalist Givara Budeiri was released by the Israeli police several hours after she was arrested while covering a protest in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood on Saturday.
"They came in an aggressive way, they asked for my press card, they didn't give me time and started kicking me with their feet and pushed me from the back. Then they pushed my arm aggressivly to the back to put the handcuffs. Afterwards they dragged me to the police car and there the assault was harsher," Budeiri commented on her arrest.
During the incident officers also pushed cameraman Nabil Mazzawi whose equipment was apparently destroyed.
The police said they arrested two suspects 'for assaulting officers after they refused to identify themselves.'
"They knew and watched me as I passed in front of the same soldiers more than 20 times and we were on air with Al Jazeera 4 times, so they knew my identity," said Budeiri.
The arrest of the reporter was condemned by the Qatar-based network and international media watchdogs.