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66 Violations of Israeli forces against journalists last July
The Journalists Syndicate on Monday said that the frequency of targeting Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation troops and its settlers rose significantly during the month of July, on Monday, August 8th
The Syndicate reported in a press statement to the Freedoms Committee, that the journalists were subjected to 66 attacks and violations, the most serious of which was the wound of 3 journalists by the Israeli occupation forces, while 28 cases of denial of coverage and arrest were documented, 24 cases of suffocation with teargas and sound bombs, and 3 cases of assault, two cases of detention, two cases of travel ban, and 3 cases of settler violations.
The statement clarified that the Israeli occupation forces deliberately and deliberately targeted the press crews working on covering the events, despite their commitment to all professional rules, including wearing special jackets with the phrase “press” marked prominently in both English and Arabic.
The Freedoms Committee observed the ongoing targeting of Palestinian journalistic content through communication platforms, as it documented 12 cases between closing press pages or deleting publications.
An earlier report reported by the Journalists Supports Committee (based in Beirut)on August 1st, stated that “the Israeli occupation detained, on Monday morning, the 56-year-old former inmate and journalist Nidal Abu Akar, after storming his house in Bethlehem.”
Abu-Akar was only freed last May rising the total of his detention year to 18 years, most of which he had spent under administrative arrest.
The committee also made it clear that the Israeli occupation authorities deterred “two journalists from traveling so that they could not expose crimes abroad, during last July.”
It demonstrated that “the travel ban and arrest come within the strategy of restricting the transmission of the truth and exposing the crimes of the Israeli occupation to the world.”
The committee reported that the Israeli occupation authorities, as of August 1st, arrested 17 Palestinian journalists and media professionals in their jails.
