By Dave DeCamp
Jeremy Loffredo, an American journalist for The Grayzone, has been arrested by the Israeli military for his reporting inside Israel.
Loffredo was jailed just a few days after releasing a report on Iranian missile strikes in Israel, information the Israeli military has been trying to censor. According to the Israeli news site Ynet, because of the report, Loffredo faces charges of “aiding the enemy during wartime and providing information to the enemy.”
Representatives from the US embassy attended a hearing on a police request to extend Loffredo’s detention, but so far, the US government has been silent and has not publicly called for his release.
“Israel is detaining and prosecuting an American journalist for doing journalism. Will his media colleagues defend him?” Aaron Maté, a journalist for The Grayzone, wrote on X.
An independent journalist who was arrested alongside Loffredo but has since been released said they were beaten and blindfolded by the Israeli military.
“Today I was beaten, kidnapped, blindfolded and taken to a military base by the Israeli Occupation Forces, together with 4 other journalists,” the journalist, Andrey X, wrote on X. “Two of us were held for 11 hours without charges, my phone was confiscated (stolen), and one of us is still in custody.”
British journalist Kit Klarenberg, a contributor to The Grayzone, is asking people to contact the US embassy in Israel ([email protected]) and urge pressure on the Israeli government to release Loffredo.
Source: Antiwar.com
Dave DeCamp is the news editor of Antiwar.com, follow him on Twitter @decampdave. View all posts by Dave DeCamp
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