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Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists stand at over 410 this year: Report

Monday, 30 November 2020 2:19 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 30 November 2020 2:27 PM ]

In this file picture, Israeli soldiers surround a Palestinian journalist in the occupied West Bank.

The Tel Aviv regime’s repressive measures against members of the press in the occupied territories continue unabated, an NGO says, noting that the Israeli military has committed 414 violations against Palestinian journalists since the beginning of the current year.

The Journalists' Support Committee, announced that Israeli forces have used live munitions, rubber-coated metal bullets in addition to poisonous and tear gas against Palestinian journalists, while banning them from covering major incidents, closing their offices, storming their homes, breaking their equipment, and detaining and torturing them in prisons, Arabic-language Quds Press International News Agency reported.

The committee renewed its condemnation of Israeli forces’ “arbitrary practices of directly and deliberately targeting Palestinian journalists while the perform their duties and field coverage of the occupying regime’s crimes against Palestinian people.” It added that 25 journalists are currently being kept behind bars inside Israeli jails.

Israeli forces have committed ‘56 violations’ against Palestinian journalists since January

That is according to the Britain-based Journalists Support Committee (JSC).

It then called on human rights organizations and media outlets to compile a detailed file on attacks perpetrated by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian people in general and journalists in particular, and to lodge complaints with international courts of justice, especially the International Criminal Court (ICC), so the Tel Aviv would not get away with its criminal acts.

The committee finally called on the United Nations to take quick and necessary measures to hold Israeli war criminals to account for their crimes against Palestinian journalists.

The statement was released on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which is annually marked on November 29.

According to the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), the Israeli military committed 13 violations against media freedom in September alone.

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MADA announced in a report that the violations included the injury of 7 journalists as a result of being struck with metal bullets and gas bombs, or being physically assaulted by Israeli soldiers and extremist settlers.

The report then pointed to the detention of three other journalists, prevention of Palestinian correspondents from field reporting and confiscation of a vehicle belonging to Palestine TV.

More than 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently held in some 17 Israeli jails, with dozens of them serving multiple life sentences.

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