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Andrea Bernardi
AFP video correspondent based in Jerusalem
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'Those disguised as Arabs'

Wednesday 7 October 2015

"It's fairly common to see Israeli agents infiltrate the crowds of Palestinian stone throwers during demonstrations", writes Jerusalem-based video reporter Andrea Bernardi. "I've witnessed this plenty of times in Jerusalem. The goal of these 'moustaarinine' -- literally 'those who disguise themselves as Arabs' -- is to stop the protesters. They usually take out their weapons without using them, or, more often, point them into the sky, as if they were about to shoot into the air."

"But today I for the first time filmed these undercover agents firing live bullets into a crowd of protesters".

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bottom) seen on July 3, 2015 (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed

Returning to Gaza

Thursday 9 July 2015

"The 50-day war between Israel and Hamas had just begun when I entered Gaza on July 10, 2014," writes the AFP video journalist Andrea Bernardi. "A year later I find myself back at the iron gates leading to the Erez border crossing. Everything is the same. And everything is different."

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