Gaza reporter says she was beaten for not wearing headscarf

Yahoo ^ | May 6, 2021, 2:25 pm | Fares Akram

[Conservat1]

Palestinian journalist Rewaa Mershid works at the studio of ZMN FM radio station in Gaza City, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Mershid, a 26-year-old reporter for a local radio station, was with colleagues filming at a privately owned farm near the heavily guarded Gaza frontier on April 25 when two members of a Hamas-run border patrol approached and asked them to identify themselves. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A female Palestinian reporter said Thursday that a member of the Hamas-run border patrol in Gaza beat her with a tree branch for not wearing an Islamic headscarf last month, an incident that sparked a public outcry.

The Islamic militant group has promised an apology and said it would punish the man. The incident highlighted Hamas' occasionally heavy-handed treatment of both reporters and women in Gaza, where it seized power in 2007 from the internationally-backed Palestinian Authority.

[Conservat1]

Surprise

[lee martell]

Hamas, being accused of ‘heavy handed tactics’?
Well, hell’s bells, look at my Shocked Face!

[Telepathic Intruder]

"The Islamic militant group has promised an apology"

But only because she's a reporter. If it happens to anyone else, it goes unreported.

[Conservat1]

What’s weird about this (Arab reporter for AP) is that it makes it sound as if it doesn’t fit Islamic militant Hamas...

[NonValueAdded]

Who is she to question their cultural norms. /s

[PGR88]

Islam is correct about women!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Well, on her reporting beat she got beat. Now she’s singing “We’ve Got the Beat” - (Go-Go’s). Doing the “Hamas Ho Down” dance.

“It was Midnight at the Oasis and the Arabs were eating their dates”.

Saddam Hussein once said “I’d walk a mile for a Camel and the camels were nervous”.

[lee martell]

And the “Hits” just keep on comin!

[Billthedrill]

How primitive. In our country we beat people for not wearing a mask.

[wardaddy]

Why is anyone shocked ....this is their core belief system at least when in

Islamic lands

[rlmorel]

"...But only because she's a reporter. If it happens to anyone else, it goes unreported is encouraged if not mandated..."

There. Fixed it.

[Conservat1]

True

[Chode]

nothing in the coran says they need to wear the headjob....

[Conservat1]

First up on Google in searching these two words together came up a European website that is very oro Islamic world white-washing jihadi butchery and harshly anti-Israel (not just its writer Robert Fisk): "The Independent". Don't get fooled by the name). Though Fisk himself who "lived in the Arab world for more than 40 years" [- per Independent] had to admit re evils of Hitler's genocidal Mufti [here | ...] and that Hitler would ultimately annihilate Arabs too.[here]

[Chode]

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, cut 'em som slack, it's because of the siege and imaginary occupation!

[SJackson]

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Reasonable. After all, he could have killed her.