Tag: Arab journalists

GAZA CITY, Palestine:. An Arab journalists’ rights group has recorded 46 of Israeli violations of Palestinian media freedoms in January. In a report on Wednesday, the Journalists’ Support Committee, which documents media violations across the Palestinian territories, said the Israeli violations varied between "arrest, extortion and direct field assault” of media personnel among other forms of harassment. According to the NGO, four Palestinian journalists were arrested by Israeli forces last month. It noted that the Israeli army and settlers committed “17 cases of assault and injury against journalists” during their coverage of...