Ordered Not to Leave
American journalist Jeremy Loffredo was released on Friday morning after four days in Israeli detention but ordered to remain in the country to allow investigators "more time to bring additional allegations or to further interrogate [him]," The Intercept reports.
One of the foreign journalists he was embedded with said in a statement on X that their group was threatened at gunpoint and abused by the Israeli Army.
"The [IDF] soldiers then illegally requested that the journalists hand in their phones, and when they refused, the soldiers pointed a gun at one of the journalists, hit him with their hands and the barrel of a gun, then dragged him out of the car and slammed him onto the concrete. When lying on the ground, they pointed 2 guns at his head. The rest of the journalists exited the car and the military raided it, confiscating phones, cameras, and personal items."