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Source: http://www.cpj.org/news/2004/PAT05feb04na.html
Attacks on Palestinian Media Outlets
(Committee to Protect Journalists) On February 2, three masked Palestinian men carrying automatic rifles stormed the offices of the Ramallah-based Al-Quds Educational Television, according to assistant manager Haroun Abu Arrah. The assailants beat two staffers with rifle butts and fists. After the beating, two of the assailants went into another room and fired several rounds at some of the station's equipment, destroying computer screens and video equipment. On February 3, employees of the recently established Gaza City weekly Al-Daar discovered that most of the computer equipment in the office had been destroyed by unknown assailants. Editor-in-chief Hassan al-Kashif believes the vandalism came in retaliation for the magazine's editorial stance against official Palestinian corruption. Palestinian sources said Al-Daar - which is close to former Palestinian preventive security chief Mohamed Dahlan - may have been attacked because of internal political conflicts within Fatah.