The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has documented 90 violations by the Israeli occupation forces against journalists in the Palestinian territories during November 2019.
In its monthly report on Israeli violations against journalists published today, the Syndicate said 15 journalists were hospitalized after being injured from rubber-coated metal bullets, live bullets and tear gas canisters fired by Israeli soldiers as well as from severe beatings.
It said the gravest of these violations occurred on November 11, when an Israeli sniper shot journalist Muath Amarneh, a photographer with J-media, in his left eye causing him to lose sight completely. Amarneh was covering Israeli forces’ human rights violations in the West Bank town of Surif. 10 other journalists also sustained light to moderate injuries during the same event.
On November 20, Israeli police broke into Palestine TV office in occupied Jerusalem and handed staff an Israeli Minister of Home Security Gilad Erdan ordering closure of the office for six months.
On the social media, the Journalists Syndicate said it monitored 100 cases of removal of Palestinian accounts or posts by Facebook and Whatsapp during the same period, which it said was due to the growing cooperation between the Israeli occupation authorities and the administrations of these apps.
At the home level, the Syndicate said it documented a number of violations by the Hamas authorities in Gaza against journalists, but no such cases were monitored in the West Bank by Palestinian Authority security forces during the same period.
