414 violations of the occupation against Palestinian journalists since the beginning of 2020

Occupied Jerusalem - SANA

The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists confirmed that the Israeli occupation’s continued violations of Palestinian journalists constitute a flagrant violation of all international norms and conventions related to media freedoms.

According to Ma'an News Agency, the committee clarified in a statement today that the Israeli occupation has committed 414 violations against Palestinian journalists since the beginning of the year 2020, which varied between direct targeting with bullets and poisonous bombs, beatings, arrests and prevention of covering the occupation crimes against the Palestinian people, closing media institutions and fighting Palestinian content except for Threatening, raiding journalists' homes, destroying their equipment and harassing them

The committee called for urgent action to release the journalists in the occupation prisons, whose number rose to 25.

The committee called on human rights and media organizations and centers to quickly take the necessary measures and prepare a complete file on the attacks perpetrated by the occupation against the Palestinian people in general and journalists in particular, and to file complaints before international courts up to the International Criminal Court to hold Israeli officials accountable for their crimes against Palestinian journalists.