In response, the host said: “So you’re acting like Hamas. Is that what you’re going to say to me tonight?” He said.
Rafovich, who was angry after the broadcaster’s words, which indicated that Israel does not abide by international law, accused the broadcaster of bias, saying: “You are not acting like a journalist.”
Host Qasi said: “Do you know how Hamas behaved?” You are the one asking. I said: Do you count on Hamas’ account? “I’m asking,” he said.
The speaker was angry at this response and said: “These words of yours are an attack on the State of Israel.”
In response to the broadcaster’s request, “Reconstruct your words in a way that we can understand,” the army spokesman got angry and said, “No, repeat your words in a way that I can understand.”
After these statements, the broadcaster suspended the official spokesman from broadcasting.
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After the live broadcast, TV5MONDE issued a written statement on the issue.
The statement said that the program presenter, Muhammad Qasi, “did not act in accordance with the rules of journalism” in his broadcast with the Israeli speaker, and that he was “deeply saddened” by the program presenter removing the speaker from the broadcast.
The channel’s management responded to Qasi on the grounds that he created “the impression that the Israeli army’s intervention methods are equivalent to Hamas’ strategy.”
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