GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The public freedoms committee, a body set up to implement national reconciliation, has secured agreement from Gaza's security services to free journalists recently detained in the coastal strip, a representative said Monday.
The detention of six reporters in Gaza over two days last week raised concern about a setback in the reconciliation process.
As part of the 2011 deal, Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-led government in the West Bank agreed to stop media harassment and politically-motivated arrests.
The committee of public freedoms held a meeting in Gaza City Monday morning for the first time in around a year.
Committee representative Khalid al-Batsh, who is also a senior leader in the Islamic Jihad movement, said Gaza’s internal security service had agreed to release the jailed journalists. Some were already released on Sunday night, he said. more
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