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(IsraelNN.com) A Yediot Achronot journalist, who had been covering a music festival was thrown out of a press conference, after she tried to ask a question of one of the performers.

The reporter, whom organizers of the press conference did not know was Israeli, stood up to ask a question of Nancy Adjmi, one of the performers of the Jerash Festival. The question was posed in broken Arabic, with the Yediot reporter stating her affiliation and nationality.

At that point, witnesses said, a near-riot broke out among other Arabic journalists in the room, and the Yediot reporter left the room, fearing for her life as a mob began advancing on her. “The question was out of place at a time [when] the wound of the Lebanese people is still fresh from the attacks of the Israeli army on Lebanon last year,” said a spokesperson for Adjmi, who added that “if the Jordanian journalists hadn’t intervened by having the Israeli journalist kicked out, [Adjmi] would have left the press conference.”