The Committee to Support Journalists recorded 57 Israeli violations of media freedoms during the month of April.
In its monthly report on the state of press freedoms, the committee said that the Israeli violations against journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories during the past month were concentrated in occupied Jerusalem.
The committee added that “arrest rulings or detention extension orders were issued against four journalists, and a case of deportation from Al-Aqsa Mosque was recorded against a journalist for seven days, and a house arrest was imposed on a female journalist. The occupation stipulated that she must not participate in the demonstrations, and in case of violation, she will have to pay a fine of 15,000 shekels.”
The report also recorded that more than 13 journalists in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem were attacked and targeted with live and rubber bullets, and poison gas and pepper gas bombs, in addition to the occupation forces’ assault on journalists by beating them while covering the occupation’s attacks on citizens, and preventing worshipers from entering the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The committee also recorded 13 cases of preventing journalists from practicing their journalistic work and covering Israeli violations against the Palestinians, in addition to cases of detention of journalists and cases of destroying of press equipment and cameras.
The report recorded a case of a raid on a journalist's house and tampering with the contents of his house, in addition to two cases of death and mutilation threats against two female journalists.
As for the occupation’s harassment of journalists imprisoned in Israeli prisons; The report recorded four cases during which the occupation deliberately conducted an intensive investigation with three journalists before releasing them, and it is still intensifying its investigations with another journalist.
The report documented the deletion and ban of Facebook accounts of more than 13 journalists and news websites, and 12 cases of deletion of Palestinian news channels and content on YouTube.
The report also recorded 20 cases of deletion of Palestinian content on the WhatsApp application, and 3 cases of deletion on Instagram, while an intense electronic attack was launched on the Al-Qastal news website, during its coverage of recent events in Bab Al-Amud in occupied Jerusalem.