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Israeli reporter trending on Twitter amid outrage over his sneaking into Mecca
Channel 13 reporter Gil Tamari is trending on Twitter in Israel and beyond amid outrage over his decision to sneak into Mecca, defying a ban on non-Muslim entry, and broadcast from the Muslim holy town while in Saudi Arabia to cover the GCC+3 summit.
Tamari was one of three reporters from the Israeli press who were allowed into the country for the regional conference.
????الإعلام الإسرائيلي يحتفي بدخول أو إسرائيلي للحرم المكي، وهو المراسل גיל תמרי، حيث ناقش كواليس رحلته في داخل #السعوية، وكيف كان يتجول بحرية بين الحجاج في المشاعر المقدسة. pic.twitter.com/bbyEEPveEa
— مفتاح (@keymiftah79) July 18, 2022
Mohammed Saud, a prominent pro-Israel social media activist from Saudi Arabia tears into Tamari in a video uploaded to Twitter. “It’s like if I were to enter a synagogue and read the Torah. Channel 13 is a disgrace,” he says in the Hebrew video.
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