The Committee to Support Journalists monitored 68 violations against Palestinian journalists during the month of September, including 48 Israeli violations, and 10 were recorded internally.
The committee also monitored more than 10 cases of violation by social media companies, after deliberately closing the websites, pages and accounts of journalists, in the context of fighting Palestinian content and obliterating the crimes of the occupation.
The committee said that the occupation forces continued their deliberate violations of Palestinian journalists and media outlets, despite international laws and charters that guarantee protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
And she indicated that the Israeli attacks increased last month, as 5 journalists were arrested, the poet Rania Hatem, and she was released, Muhammad Karout Adkidak was released, and Abdel Mohsen Shalaldeh was also released.
Osama Shaheen and Mujahid Mardawi are still detained.
The occupation forces and intelligence summoned and detained three journalists, while the occupation courts issued decisions extending the detention and issuing an administrative detention order for four of the imprisoned journalists.
As for the deliberate targeting and assault on journalists, the Report of the Committee to Support Journalists recorded more than (11) cases of assault and targeting with rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and poison gas to prevent them from practicing their journalistic work.
The occupation forces prevented journalists from practicing their professional work covering the occupation’s violations against the Palestinians, as 10 cases of prevention of coverage were recorded, and two cases of travel bans were recorded for treatment.
Regarding the raids and incursions into the homes of journalists, last month´s report recorded more than (5) cases of storming, searches, and tampering with the contents of journalists´ homes, during which computers, files, documents and documents, phones and computers, and a car belonging to the Palestine Satellite Channel were confiscated.
As for harassment and torture inside the basements of the occupation prisons, the report recorded three cases, and a fine was imposed on two journalists.
