The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom "MADA" issued a report on the Israeli arrests of journalists in Palestine.
The report, titled “The Israeli Occupation’s Arrests of Journalists – False Pretexts for Suppressing Freedoms,” covers what the Center monitored and documented of Israeli arrests of journalists during the period from the beginning of 2016 until the beginning of last May (that is, over a period of approximately five and a half years). ), where the report sheds light on this type of Israeli attacks targeting media freedoms in Palestine, which include about 15 types of violations, of which arrests are one and one of the most dangerous on media freedoms.
The report indicates that (male) journalists constituted the largest percentage of the total victims of these arrests (about 91%) compared to 9% of female journalists, which is mainly due to the composition of the journalistic body in Palestine (women journalists constitute about 25-30%), as well as the concentration of work Most of them are in jobs that do not require presence in the field, where most of the attacks, including many arrests and detentions, usually take place.
The report reviews examples of the physical and psychological attacks that journalists are subjected to, the practices and policies during their arrest and detention, the pretexts used by the occupation authorities to arrest them, and the repetition of the same pretexts and practices in dealing with them as a form of punishment and as part of a process that aims to employ these practices to keep them away from covering the events and what It is interspersed with Israeli attacks and even keeping them away from journalistic work in general.
