<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Anti Al-Jazeera Protest in&nbsp;Nablus]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span class="article-details"><span class="article-detail">Thursday January 27, 2011 14:42</span><span class="article-detail"> by Alessandra Bajec &#8211; IMEMC &amp; Agencies</span></span></p>
<blockquote class="article-intro"><p>A protest was held in the city of  Nablus, on Thursday morning, against the recent release of documents by  al-Jazeera, the PNN reported.</p></blockquote>
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<p class="article">Major  General Jibreen al-Bakri, Governor of Nablus, called for a ‘popular  protest’ to be held in the middle of the city, on Thursday at 11 a.m,  against the documents recently released by the news network.</p>
<p>Bakri told Palestinian news wire Wafa on Wednesday: “Al-Jazeera TV is  destabilizing the situation and energizing negative elements in the  region. What they have done deserves a popular response, because  al-Jazeera deviated from the script and started targeting the  Palestinian people.”</p>
<p>Al-Bakri is known to be a staunch Fatah ally to President Abbas,  reportedly implicated as the man who authorized concessions of  Palestinian territory in East Jerusalem, according to the ‘Palestine  Papers’.</p>
<p>Mahmoud Ashteeh, Secretary-general of Fatah in the Nablus governorate,  said the Qatar-based TV station had “distorted the global image of the  Palestinian people and their resistance.” Ashteeh invited all concerned  media to attend the protest.</p>
<p>In other news, the PalMedia office in Nablus was vandalized on Wednesday  evening just after al-Jazeera crews taped an interview with Professor  Abdel Sattar Qasem, from the city&#8217;s an-Najah National University, Ma&#8217;an  News said. Qasem had been reportedly commenting on the documents  released by al-Jazeera and The Guardian.</p>
<p>PalMedia workers claimed that five men broke into the office, destroying  equipment and turning over furniture, and one had been carrying a gun.</p>
<p>Local police officers opened an investigation however they did not make  any comment on the suspects who might lie behind the attack.</p>
<p>Earlier on Monday, a dozen young rioters vandalized al-Jazeera&#8217;s office  in Ramallah, breaking the security gate of the building and spraying  graffiti, in protest against the documents revealed in the series ‘The  Palestine Papers’ on Sunday, which detailed peace talks between Israeli  and Palestinian negotiators over the last decade</p>
<p>The documentaries produced by al-Jazeera came under harsh criticism by  Palestinian officials, who argued the Qatar-based station is pursuing an  agenda to undermine the Palestinian Authority and the PLO.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/60517">Anti Al-Jazeera Protest in Nablus &#8211; International Middle East Media Center</a>.</p>
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