RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Palestinian Center for Development and Media (MADA) said in a report on Thursday that the beginning of 2012 was a bad one for Palestinian journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory as many violations against them by occupation has been recorded in the first month of the year.
Mada said, in a press statement on Thursday, that the IOF launched a harassment campaign against Palestinian journalists at the end of January, firing live bullets and teargas bombs at some of them, extending the detention of others and imposing house arrest on one journalist.
The report also talks of targeting those journalist who try to cover the weekly peaceful anti-wall demonstrations resulting in the wounding of some journalists.
“MADA expresses its strong condemnation of this continuing campaign of Israeli violations against media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territories and calls for the immediate intervention of international bodies and human rights organizations to bring an end to these violations which stand in direct contravention of international laws of freedom of expression, particularly article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” the statement said.
MADA also called on the governments in Ramallah and Gaza to respect freedom of speech, lift the ban on publications and stop placing hurdles in the way of Palestinian journalists.Report: occupation violate Palestinian journalists' rights
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