The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) reported on Monday an increase in violations of media freedoms in Palestine during the first half of 2019, 330 attacks compared to 277 recorded during In the period from 2018, a total increase of 53 attacks or 19%.
Of these attacks, 150 have been committed by Israeli forces and authorities (constituting 45% of all attacks) and 115 attacks by different Palestinian groups (constituting 35% of attacks). Most of the Palestinian attacks occurred in the Gaza Strip, Facebook was the closure of the pages of Palestinian journalists, journalists and writers in the West Bank and Gaza under the name of fighting "incitement to violence and terrorism," accounting for 20% of the total attacks that were monitored and documented in the first half of 2019.
Despite the relative decline in the number of Israeli attacks compared to the first half of 2019 and the first half of the year 2018, the number of Israeli attacks recorded in the first six months of the year 2019 still exceeds the overall average number of Israeli attacks in the past eight years.
In addition, the Israeli aggression against the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, including the occupied city of Jerusalem and 59 attacks in the Gaza Strip, Neighborhood and direct gas bombs, as well as the destruction of the headquarters of two media institutions in the Gaza Strip.
The total number of physical attacks by the Israeli army against journalists in the West Bank and Gaza was 88, constituting 59% of the total Israeli attacks, while four types of serious attacks (physical injuries, arrests, destruction of institutions and the use of journalists as human shields) Of the total Israeli attacks recorded.
Regarding the Palestinian violations, there was a significant increase during the first half of 2019 compared with the same period of the previous year (67%). This was due to a large increase in the number of attacks recorded in the Gaza Strip, West Bank.
A total of 27 Palestinian violations were recorded in the West Bank in the first half of 2019, with a total of 88 violations by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the same period.
The arrests and detentions led to a total of 37 cases of Palestinian violations, 16 of whom were arrested and detained during the detention (15 of them in Gaza and one in the West Bank), an unprecedented Palestinian.
