GAZA CITY - Hamas’s police force arrested a cameraman in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as he was filming a protest by their secular Fatah party rivals, according to his employer and his family.
Nabil Abu Daya, 34, a cameraman for Palestinian public television, was arrested while filming scores of children visiting the homes of slain Palestinians in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Spokesmen from the Hamas-run authorities—which have ruled Gaza since June when the Islamists routed security forces loyal to Fatah in a week of bloody skirmishes—could not immediately be reached for comment.
In August the Islamist movement banned Palestinian public television from broadcasting inside the coastal enclave, accusing the channel of serving as a mouthpiece for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
Abu Daya’s family said he was not filming on behalf of public television on Sunday, but was working for a private studio.
