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Some media outlets have declined to discuss incidents involving their staff out of fears for their safety, but late Thursday, France 24 issued a statement saying that three of its journalists who had been held for 24 hours had again been picked up by Egyptian military police, only hours after their release. On its nightly newscast Thursday, France's leading broadcaster, TF1, said two of its reporters were being held for questioning. Alliot-Marie said some 20 French journalists were holed up in a hotel in Cairo and were in constant contact with the French embassy there. France's ambassador in the country has been instructed to intervene immediately in case of further problems involving French journalists, Alliot-Marie's statement warned. On Thursday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs denounced the "systematic targeting" of reporters covering the protests. Two Fox News Channel journalists were severely beaten by a mob near Tahrir Square on Wednesday. Correspondent Greg Palkot and cameraman Olaf Wiig had retreated to a building, but someone threw a firebomb inside and the men were attacked as they rushed out, said Michael Clemente, Fox's senior vice president for news. The Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini said its correspondent in Cairo was briefly hospitalized with a stab wound to the leg after being attacked by pro-Mubarak demonstrators in Tahrir Square. A Greek newspaper photographer was punched in the face.
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