Sam Husseini was dragged out by armed guards after attempting to ask a query about Gaza
Unbiased journalist Sam Husseini was dragged away from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s remaining press briefing after attempting to ask a query concerning the Gaza ceasefire. Blinken claimed that the previous 4 years have seen profitable diplomacy, together with the truce, although each Israel and Hamas gave President-elect Donald Trump the credit score for the deal.
In a video posted by Ryan Grim of DropSite Information, a number of uniformed Diplomatic Safety Service (DSS) officers may be seen approaching Husseini, who’s seated within the briefing room.
“Get your palms off me!” Husseini cried out because the guards seized him. “Reply my rattling query.”
“You preach a few free press!” he known as out. “I’m asking questions after being instructed by [State Department spokesman] Matt Miller that he is not going to reply my questions.”
Each different journalist within the room watched and did nothing. America the free world!Sam Husseini forcibly faraway from the briefing room after interrupting Blinken’s remaining press convention. pic.twitter.com/6ff6Qz1WXV
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) January 16, 2025
Blinken responded that journalists needed to “respect the method” and that he would take questions after he was accomplished along with his speech.
“All people from Amnesty Worldwide to the ICJ [International Court of Justice] is saying that Israel is doing genocide and extermination and also you’re telling me to respect the method?” Husseini yelled again.
“Prison! Why are you not in The Hague?” he known as out repeatedly, as DSS officers carried him out of the briefing room.
Posting on X a short time after the incident, Husseini mentioned he had been “severely manhandled” for attempting to ask severe questions that the State Division didn’t need to reply. Amongst them was whether or not the US knew concerning the “Hannibal Directive,” a controversial doctrine permitting the Israeli army to kill service members or civilians relatively than enable them to be taken captive.
Journalist Ryan Grim of DropSite Information posted {that a} State Division staffer had tried to take away Husseini after he requested that query, and known as armed safety after he refused to go away.
Husseini mentioned he additionally wished to ask Blinken about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Israeli nuclear weapons, and whether or not the Geneva Conventions utilized to Gaza.
In one other incident on the identical briefing, Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal accused Blinken of serving to “destroy our faith, Judaism, by associating it with fascism” and identified that the secretary of state’s father-in-law and grandfather had been lobbyists for Israel.
“Why did you sacrifice the rules-based order on the mantle of your dedication to Zionism?” Blumenthal shouted, as he was taken away by State Division staffers. “Why did you enable the Holocaust of our time to occur? How does it really feel to have your legacy be genocide?”
