Unprecedented Bloody Violations against Media Freedoms in Palestine during the Month of October the Most Serious of which was the Killing of 39 Journalists and the Loss of the Whereabouts of Two

Ramallah – Nov. 4^th, 2023. During the month of October 2023, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms “MADA” monitored an unprecedented record of extremely serious crimes and violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the press, Palestinian journalists, and media freedom in Palestine, most of which were concentrated and most violent and dangerous in the Gaza Strip.

The occupation forces escalated an extremely dangerous escalation in their attacks and targeting of journalists and media freedoms in Palestine, culminating in the killing of 39 journalists since the beginning of the aggression[1] launched by the occupation forces on the Gaza Strip on the 7th of October, knowing that this number is likely to rise every day, in addition to the injuries that many journalists suffered from fragments of missiles and bombs resulting from the ongoing bombing operations against civilians.

The month of October 2023 will be remembered by the Palestinian press and journalists as the most brutal and bloody month to date, as the media movement lost 39 of its cadres, most of whom were targeted while performing their professional duty during field coverage of the barbaric Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which constitutes the most severe blow to the press and freedom of the media in Palestine.

The killing of these journalists at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces was accompanied by the bombing and destruction of the homes of 44 other journalists. In addition to the bombing, destruction, and targeting of 21 media institutions’ headquarters, the halting of broadcasting and the prevention of the work of 3 media institutions and websites. Also, the attacking and wounding of 22 journalists (including 7 who were injured in the Gaza Strip) and a wide series of assaults that targeted dozens of other journalists and media outlets in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were committed by the Israeli occupation army during the days of the widespread war it launched against the Gaza Strip starting on October 7^th, 2023.

Since the seventh of last October, more than 9,227 citizens, most of them women and children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip, and more than 23,561 wounded, in addition to the destruction of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals, and mosques, and the targeting of the basic infrastructure of the Strip. This toll is not final, and it continues to rise in light of the continued aggression, represented by dropping bombs, shelling missiles, and targeting civilians in excessive use of force, confirms the existence of conclusive evidence of war crimes in the Israeli bombing campaign, which must be urgently investigated.[2] The occupation forces also intensified their aggression against citizens in the West Bank, as the death toll in the West Bank since the beginning of this year rose to more than 340 martyrs, including 132 martyrs since October 7^th, in addition to more than 320 wounded.

In addition to the above, the Israeli aggression led to the collapse of the health sector in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the collapse of hospitals that were targeted by bombs and missiles in clear violation of International Humanitarian Law and were no longer able to deal with the number of wounded, in addition to their lack of life-saving medicines and equipment. Since the beginning of the aggression, Israel has imposed a strict siege on civilians in the Gaza Strip and closed the crossings and borders between Israel and Gaza, preventing the entry of food, cutting off water supplies, and stopping the supply of fuel and electricity. The matter did not stop there, it cut off all communications and internet services, which paralyzed all aspects of life and isolated all those in the Gaza Strip from outside it after the rapid depletion of water, medicines, fuel, and electricity, which led to the lack of possible ways to find out what crimes were being committed against civilians, including journalists.[3] Moreover, a large number of media institutions in the Gaza Strip stopped working as a result of the power and Internet outage, while many institutions lost contact with their correspondents inside Gaza.

MADA Center monitored a total of 188 crimes and violations of media freedoms in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including the city of East Jerusalem, during the month of October 2023. The Israeli occupation forces, authorities, and settlers committed 187 of them, and only one violation was committed by Palestinian security services in the West Bank.

It is worth mentioning that the majority of the 187 Israeli attacks and violations that were monitored (whether committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip or those committed in the West Bank, including the city of East Jerusalem) were complex violations, each of which included more than one assault or violation. Many of them also affected a group of journalists or media outlets, making the resulting damage double and much more extensive than the numbers might suggest.

Israeli Violations:
Physical Violations/ Martyrs:
During 27 days of its war on the Gaza Strip (between October 7th and October 31st), the Israeli occupation forces killed 31 journalists and media workers, in addition to the loss of the whereabouts of two journalists since the first day of the aggression (HAITHAM ABDEL WAHID and NIDAL ALWAHIDI), where the Israeli Supreme Court refused an appeal to reveal their fate. In addition to this outcome, the Lebanese Reuters photographer ISSAM ABDULLAH was killed on 10/13 in an Israeli bombing near the Lebanese borders, while covering the bombing in southern Lebanon near the village of Alma al-Shaab.

#	Journalist Name	Date of Martyrdom		Work Agency
1.	MOHAMMED JARGHOUN		Oct. 7^th,2023	Smart Media Agency
2.	MOHAMMED ALSALHI		Oct. 8^th, 2023	Fourth Estate Agency
3.	IBRAHIM LAFI		Oct. 8^th, 2023	Ein Media Agency
4.	ASAAD SHAMLAKH		Oct. 8^th, 2023	Freelance Journalist
5.	HAITHAM ABDEL WAHID		Oct. 8^th, 2023	Ein Media Agency (Lost)
6.	NIDAL ALWAHIDI		Oct. 8^th, 2023	New Press Agency and al-Najah TV (Lost)
7.	Anas Abu shamaleh		Oct. 9^th,2023	Freelance Journalist
8.	MOHAMMED SOBH ABU RIZQ		Oct. 10^th, 2023	Khabr Agency
9.	SAID ALTAWEEL		Oct. 10^th, 2023	Alkhamisa
10.	HISHAM ALNAWAJHA		Oct. 10^th, 2023	Khabr Agency
11.	MOHAMMED FAYEZ ABU MATAR		Oct. 11^th, 2023	Freelance Journalist
12.	Mustafa Al Naqeeb		Oct. 11^th,2023	Journalist
13.	AHMED SHEHAB		Oct. 12^th, 2023	Sawt al-Asra Radio
14.	SALAM MAYMA		Oct. 13^th, 2023	Sawt al-Quds Radio
15.	ABDUL HADI HABIB		Oct. 16^th, 2023	UNRWA Journalist
16.	ISSAM BAHAR		Oct. 17^th, 2023	al-Aqsa TV
17.	MOHAMMED BALOUSHA		Oct. 17^th, 2023	Palestine Today TV
18.	Rajab Al Naqeeb		Oct. 17^th,2023	Freelance Journalist
19.	SAMEEH ALNADY		Oct. 18^th, 2023	al-Aqsa TV
20.	KHALIL ABU ATHRA		Oct. 19^th, 2023	al-Aqsa TV
21.	HAZEM BIN SAEED		Oct. 19^th, 2023	Freelance Journalist
22.	MOHAMMED ABU ALI		Oct. 20^th, 2023	ash-Shabab Radio
23.	HANI ALMADHOUN		Oct. 21^st, 2023	al-Aqsa TV
24.	HUSSAM MUBARAK		Oct. 21^st, 2023	Sawt al-Aqsa Radio
25.	RUSHDI ALSIRRAJ		Oct. 21^st, 2023	Ein Media Agency
26.	Mohammed Shourbaji		Oct. 23th, 2023	Freelance Journalist
27.	Mohammed Abu Tharefa		Oct. 24^th,2023	journalist
28.	Iman Eqeili		Oct. 24^th,2023	Freelance Journalist
29.	MOHAMMED IMAD LABAD		Oct. 24^th, 2023	Alresalah Press Agency
30.	SALMA MUKHAIMER		Oct. 25^th, 2023	Freelance Journalist
31.	MOHAMMED FAYEZ ALHASSANI		Oct. 25^th, 2023	Rawasi Falasteen
32.	JAMAL MOHAMMED FAQAWI		Oct. 25^th, 2023	Almeithq News Network
33.	Zaher Afghani		Oct. 25^th,2023	Freelance Journalist
34.	SA’ED AL-HALABI		Oct. 26^th, 2023	al-Aqsa Network
35.	AHMED ABU MAHDI		Oct. 26^th, 2023	al-Aqsa TV
36.	DUAA SHARAF		Oct. 26^th, 2023	Sawt al-Aqsa Radio
37.	YASSER SOBHI ABU NAMOUS		Oct. 27^th, 2023	Freelance Journalist
38.	Huthifa Alnajjar		Oct. 28th, 2023	Freelance Journalist
39.	NAZMI EL NADEEM		Oct. 30^th, 2023	Freelance Journalist
40.	MAJID KISHKO		Oct. 31^st, 2023	Palestine TV
41.	IMAD ALWAHIDI		Oct. 31^st, 2023	Palestine TV

All of these journalists were martyred while they were in places that were supposed to be safe for civilians (and media professionals are part of them). Some of them were martyred inside their homes or while covering the results of soldiers’ operations in residential places and neighborhoods, while others were killed in operations that directly targeted their homes.

Targeting and Destroying Media Institutions:

Many of the evidence and incidents that were monitored in connection with the crimes, attacks, and violations that targeted journalists and media outlets during the war launched by the Israeli occupation forces on the Gaza Strip confirm that what happened was not the result of a coincidence, but rather was a deliberate act in some attacks with the aim of silencing the media and media professionals. The occupation authorities dealt with them as if they were “military institutions” since they deliberately targeted towers that are known to contain, in addition to residential buildings, the headquarters of media institutions, whether local or foreign.

The occupation forces bombed, destroyed, and targeted a total of 21 media institutions in the Gaza Strip, 7 of which were completely destroyed during the bombing of the 14-story “Palestine” Residential Tower in the center of Gaza City, which is (Shehab Agency, Al-Ayyam Newspaper office, Infinite for Media Services, Fadel Shanaa Foundation, Gaza FM Radio, Holy Quran Radio, Al-Quds Newspaper Office).

They were also destroyed by airstrikes were 4 institutions based in the Watan Tower in the center of the Gaza Strip: (Ma’an News Agency, Shams News Agency, Roya Channel office, and APA office).

In addition, a group of media institutions were partially damaged as a result of the targeting of neighboring areas by bombardment with occupation missiles during the aggression on the Gaza Strip, including the headquarters of “Palestine” TV, the office of the “French” agency, the office of the “Masdar” website, the “Methaq” network, and the “Al-Aqsa” network office. “Sawa” Agency, “Baladna” Radio, “Zaman” Radio, “Khabar” Agency, and “National Media” Agency.

Destruction of Journalists' Homes and Injuries:

Occupation bombs and missiles destroyed the homes of 44 journalists or caused them various damages as a result of the extensive bombing operations carried out by the Israeli occupation forces during their aggression against Gaza, noting that many of these destruction operations involved a series of complex violations, especially what happened to these journalists or their family members. Those who were martyred and some of whom were injured as a result, in addition to the displacement of their families and their loss of shelter, and the consequences of that on them, as happened with the freelance journalist SALAM MAYMA, whose house was bombed on Tuesday, October 10th, and the news of her martyrdom spread along with her husband and children, but the news of her death was confirmed after she was pulled alive from under the rubble three days after the house was destroyed.

The bombing targeted the homes of the following: Director of “Zaman” Radio, journalist RAMI AL-SHARAFI, Broadcaster of “Al-Quds Today” Channel BASIL KHAIRUDDIN, Radio Al-Quds announcer, journalist SALAM MAYMA who was martyred, journalist ABDULLAH KARSO’ who works for the government media office, journalist AHMED SHEHAB, journalist MOATAZ AL-AZAYZA, Turkish Anatolia Agency photographer ALI JADALLAH, journalist Osaid AL-NAJJAR, journalist SALEH AL-MASRY, a journalist at the Palestinian Al-Rai Agency MAHMOUD SALMI, Office Director of Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed Newspaper DIAA AL-KAHLOT, journalist at Al-Rai Agency MAYSARA SHAABAN, journalist ALAA AL-HELOU who works for Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed Newspaper, journalist at Al-Resala Newspaper DAWOUD MUSA, and journalist ZAID ABU ZAYED. In addition to journalist MUTHANNA AL-NAJJAR, who works for Al-Quds Radio, journalist AHMED QADEEH from Al-Aqsa TV, journalist MOHAMMED BALOUSHA who was martyred, journalist ABDUL HADI HABIB who was also martyred, the artist ALI NESMAN, journalist MOHAMMED ABU MATAR who was martyred, journalist ISSAM BAHAR who was also martyred, journalist HOSSAM MUBARAK was also martyred, and journalist MAHA ABU AL-KASS, Director of the Palestine Newspaper RAMI KHRAISH, journalist ZIYAD AL-MAQED from Al-Aqsa TV, Al-Shabab Radio journalist MOHAMMED ABU ALI, journalist HANI AL-MAGHARI, the house of cartoonist UMAYYAH JUHA was also bombed, journalist MOHAMMED ABU AL-QUMSAN, journalist MOHAMMED ABU ARAB, journalist YASSER ABU NAMOUS who was martyred, journalist NAZMI AL-NADIM, journalist SA’ED AL-HALABI, Al-Jazeera correspondent WAEL AL-DAHDOUH, journalist JAMAL FAQAWI who was martyred, journalist MOHAMMED AL-HASSANI, journalist MOHAMMED MAQAT, journalist RUSHDI ALSIRRAJ who was martyred, journalist HAZEM BIN SAEED who was also martyred, journalist SAED AL-SUWAYRKI, and journalist SAMAH AL-MABHOUH.

During the aggression on the Gaza Strip, a total of 7 journalists were injured in various parts of their bodies resulting from the bombing of their homes or the areas in which they were present or to which they were displaced. They are journalist IBRAHIM QANNAN, Chief of the Journalists Support Committee SALEH AL-MASRY, journalist ALI HAMAD, the French Agency’s cameraman MAHMOUD AL-HAMS, France 24 correspondent MAHA ABU AL-KASS, UNRWA journalist IYAD AL-BABA, and journalist MAALI ABU SAMRA.

Israeli violations in the West Bank:

The media outlets and journalists working in the West Bank were not immune from the Israeli violations that continued at a severe and escalating pace, as a total of 75 violations were monitored and documented, many of which included several media crews that included more than one journalist, and many of them also included complex attacks against the same journalist.

Documented Israeli violations in the West Bank during the month of October increased by 55% over the 34 violations documented during the month of September. However, the most serious of these violations was the occupation authorities’ pursuit of journalists to arrest them, as it was monitored for a total of 17 arrests against journalists from various cities of the West Bank, including the city of Jerusalem, and most of them have not been released yet. They are AHMED AL-SAFADI, SABRI JIBRIL, ABDEL NASSER MOHAMMED AL-LAHAM, MOATH AMARNEH, MUSTAFA AL-KHAWAJA, IMAD ABU AWAD, ALAA AL-RIMAWI, MOHAMMED SABBAH, RADWAN AL-QATNANI, LAMA KHATER, BILAL ARMAN, SOJOOD ASSI, MOHAMMED SALEH BADR, NAWAF AL-AMER, and ZAKARIA ABU FANAR.

During the month of July, the following names were injured in the West Bank at the hands of the Israeli occupation soldiers and its settlers: DALIA AL-NIMRI correspondent of Russia Today Channel, MUSAB SHAWAR correspondent of Al-Hadath Newspaper, and freelance journalist ABDEL MAJEED ADWAN. Also, a group of journalists suffocated from the smell of tear gas (journalist LATIFA ABDEL LATIF, journalist MAYSAA ABU GHAZALEH, journalist LIWAA ABU RMEILEH, photographer GHASSAN ABU EID, journalist BARAA ABU RAMOZ, journalist HEBA NAJDI, and journalist RENAD SHARABATI).

MADA Center also documented 5 cases of detention of journalists, summoning and interrogation of three journalists, 4 cases of equipment confiscation, raiding of a library, 21 cases of preventing coverage and targeting to prevent coverage, incitement by settlers against three journalists via a channel on “Telegram”, and blocking, closing, and preventing the broadcast of three media institutions.

Social Media Violations:

Despite the huge and suspicious increase in the number of violations committed by social media platforms and companies during the month of October against citizens, including journalists, it has been impossible to monitor them with numbers and details as usual. Most of these violations occurred between journalists and media institutions in the Gaza Strip. Moreover, what made it impossible to follow up on these violations was the difficult circumstances that prevailed, including the blackout of electricity and the internet for everyone in the Strip, in addition to what most journalists - including MADA Center field researchers - were subjected to resulting in displacement about the bombing of their homes.

Palestinian Violations:

During the month of October, the MADA Center monitored and documented a single Palestinian violation, which was when the security services targeted the car of Media Port journalist JIHAD BARAKAT with live ammunition while covering the Islamic Jihad Movement festival in the Nour Shams refugee camp on the anniversary of its launch.

Recommendations:

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms “MADA” expresses its deep sadness at the loss of this large number of media colleagues and believes that the Israeli occupation’s persistence in committing these crimes, which are considered war crimes according to the Geneva Conventions, would not have reached these limits had it not been for its bet on the escape of the perpetrators of these crimes, attacks, and violations from punishment, as happened during the aggression against the Gaza Strip in previous years, where the occupation forces killed many journalists and destroyed many media headquarters.

Therefore, we at the “MADA” Center strongly condemn the occupation’s attacks and bloody violations targeting journalists in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including the city of East Jerusalem. We call on the international community to work firmly and seriously to protect Palestinian journalists, and we also demand that the perpetrators of these crimes and violations be held accountable.

We extend our deepest condolences to the families of the martyred journalists and the journalistic family and wish a speedy recovery to the wounded journalists. We salute the Palestinian, Arab, and foreign journalists who were not intimidated by the Israeli occupation war machine, and who risked their lives while performing their professional duty throughout the period of the brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip.

Details of Violations:

October 1st. The occupation forces directly targeted two journalists with tear gas canisters on Sunday morning to prevent them from photographing the homes of a citizen in the village of “Jalboun,” which the occupation soldiers had turned into a military barracks.

According to the investigations of MADA’s field researcher, the photojournalist for “Palestine Today” Satellite Channel, MAHMOUD NAJI ABU ALI (29 years old), and the journalist MASHAEL AHMED ABU AL-RUB (22 years old), who works for “Palestine Post,” went to the village of "Jalboun" in Jenin Governorate at about 10:30 am on Sunday morning to document the violations of the occupation forces in the house of citizen JIHAD ABU AL-RUB after the occupation soldiers turned it into a military barracks and stayed there.

While filming the house, the occupation soldiers began firing tear gas canisters directly at the journalists who tried to take shelter using the wall of the village’s school as a cover. The soldiers, however, went out to the roof of the house from which they were making their barracks and continued to fire tear gas canisters directly at the journalists. This situation continued for approximately 20 minutes, while the journalists continued their attempt to stay away from soldiers and tear gas canisters.

October 1st. The occupation soldiers stopped a group of journalists at the Shavei Shomron checkpoint, obstructed their work, searched their bags, and confiscated two gas masks from them on Sunday afternoon.

In his testimony to MADA researcher, Quds News Network correspondent ABDULLAH TAYSEER BAHASH (26 years old) said that he, Pal Post photographer MUJAHID TABANJA, and freelance journalist SUDQI RAYYAN were present at around 11:00 noon on Sunday at Shafi Shomron checkpoint, which is based in the city of Nablus, between the town of Deir Sharaf and Sebastia, to prepare press material about the closure of the checkpoint and the repeated settlers’ incursions into the town of Sebastia.

When the occupation soldiers saw them in the place, they approached them, obstructed their work, prevented them from covering, and searched their bags and press equipment for a few minutes. When they returned it to them, they did not return two gas masks belonging to journalist BAHASH. When the journalist asked them about the masks, they refused to return them and ordered them to leave.

October 2nd. The occupation soldiers obstructed the work of a group of journalists on Monday morning and prevented them from performing their work on the top of Mount “Ebal” in the city of Nablus, forcing the Roya Channel crew to cut off the live broadcast and leave the place.

In his testimony to MADA, “Roya” channel correspondent HAFEZ MAHMOUD ABU SABRA (33 years old) arrived at around 10:45 am on Monday morning to the summit of Mount “Ebal” in the city of Nablus, where the area was scheduled to be closed with military checkpoints from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.

The journalists entered the area before the checkpoint was placed as the checkpoint contained a military jeep and a camp guard’s car, and they were 200 meters away from the settlers’ gathering. At 11:00, the settlers began arriving in the area, and the soldiers came and asked the journalists to leave the place. The journalists’ response was that no official announcement of closure had been made and that the area was considered a closed military zone, and they would remain in a place away from the settlers.

After half an hour, during the live broadcast of the "Roya" channel, a soldier approached the reporter and told him that the presence of the crew had been monitored via a "drone" and that they should move away from the area. The cameraman, NASSER SHTAYYEH, replied that they were far away and were only doing their work, and they continued broadcasting.

The soldier went but quickly returned with a military jeep containing an officer. The officer told the journalists that their presence was forbidden and closed the camera lens with his hand, also during the live broadcast. The reporter, ABU SABRA, told him that he did not understand Hebrew and that he could not interrupt the broadcast and must finish it.

The soldier stood next to him, shouted at him, and drew his weapon to keep the journalists away, which forced them to immediately cut off the broadcast, get into their car, and leave the place, while the soldiers continued to walk behind them until they reached the checkpoint set up at the entrance to Mount “Ebal”, from the side of the public housing.

October 3rd. One of the settlers attacked the correspondent of the "Russia Today" channel and obstructed her work during the live broadcast to cover the settlers' attacks on worshipers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

DALIA AL-NIMRI, correspondent of Russia Today channel, reported to MADA Center that she was violently pushed on Tuesday by one of the settlers present in the Old City of Jerusalem during the live broadcast to prevent her from covering the settlers’ attacks on worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

October 3rd. The Israeli occupation police prevented a group of journalists from covering the “Bab as-Silsila” (Chain Gate) area on Tuesday afternoon, even though they were wearing professional protective equipment.

In his testimony to MADA, freelance journalist AHMED AL-SAFADI mentioned that at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, when he was at one of the entrances to Al-Aqsa Mosque “Bab as-Silsila (Chain Gate),” the occupation police prevented him from photographing in the Old City of Jerusalem while he was with his colleagues in Jerusalem Governorate Media Unit AHMED JALAJEL and ROSE AL-ZARO, despite wearing a press uniform and showing his international press card, one of the officers pushed him and accompanied him home to prevent him from filming.

October 4th. The freelance journalist AHMED AL-SAFADI was subjected to coverage prevention and work obstruction on Wednesday morning by the occupation police while he was in the Old City of Jerusalem.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, journalist AL-SAFADI went at nine o’clock in the morning on Wednesday to film the settlers’ attack on the church in front of the Umariya Elementary School in the Old City of Jerusalem, but the police officers prevented him and pushed him outside the “Bab al-Asbat (Lions’ Gate)” area and detained him for an hour in the vicinity of Bab al-Rahma cemetery.

October 4th. Israeli occupation soldiers detained journalist DIANA KHUWAYLID for two hours, obstructed her work, and prevented her from preparing a report about their storming of the “Artah” school in the “Artah” suburb, south of Tulkarm, on Wednesday.

In her testimony to MADA, the journalist for the German News Agency, DIANA ABDULLAH KHUWAYLID (27 years old), said that she went at about 4:00 p.m. to the “Artah” suburb, south of Tulkarm, after news came of the occupation forces storming the school there, turning it into a military barracks, and harassing one of the feminism centers in the opposite side of the school and its employees.

The journalist arrived at the place, and it did not appear that there were any soldiers in the school. As soon as she raised the camera to take the necessary pictures for the report, one of the soldiers shouted at her in Arabic as they were hiding behind the school wall.

The journalist told the soldier that she was a journalist and wanted to take some pictures, but a group of soldiers suddenly attacked her because they thought she would run away from the place. They tried to confiscate her cameras, and one of them pushed her and twisted her hand to her back.

Another soldier came and asked the first to leave her. He asked her about her name, the reason for her presence in the place, and why she was not wearing a press uniform. He also asked her for her ID card, but she refused to give it to him for fear that he would photograph her. Thus, he told her that he would detain her for three hours.

The journalist remained detained for two hours until the soldiers allowed her to leave, and it was clear that it was time to change their shift, so they released her.

October 5th. The occupation police arrested journalist AHMED AL-SAFADI from the “Bab al-Asbat (Lions’ Gate)” area in the Old City on Thursday morning. He remained at the Al-Qashla Investigation Center for two hours and then was released.

In a testimony to a MADA researcher, journalist AL-SAFADI said that around ten o’clock on Thursday morning, the occupation police arrested freelance journalist AHMED AL-SAFADI from the “Bab al-Asbat (Lions’ Gate)” area in the Old City of Jerusalem for no excuse, as he lives in the area, and it is normal for him to be there.

The journalist was transferred to the “Al-Qashla” Investigation Center for two hours and was not investigated. He was then released without conditions.

October 4th. The Israeli occupation forces detained two journalists at the “Huwara” checkpoint south of Nablus for an hour, while they were heading to cover the settlers’ raids on Joseph’s Tomb, searched their vehicle and phones, and beat the photographer, YAZAN HAMAYEL, after watching video clips of the soldiers on his phone.

In his testimony to MADA, the freelance photographer YAZAN HISHAM HAMAYEL (23 years old) said that he and his colleague, the freelance photographer ABDUL RAHMAN DUMAIDI (20 years old), were on their way to cover the storming of the “Joseph’s Tomb” area in the city of Nablus.

At approximately 9:00 a.m., the two photographers arrived at the “Huwara” checkpoint. The soldiers stopped them at the checkpoint and inspected the vehicle. When the soldier saw the press uniform, he intensified the inspection and verification procedures for the vehicle. He confiscated the camera belonging to the photographer ABDUL RAHMAN, searched it, and then requested mobile phones from the journalists who refused. YAZAN, however, gave him the phone because it contained private personal material on it. The soldier then insulted the journalists with obscene words.

Journalist YAZAN asked to speak with the officer, but the soldier refused and confiscated the phones at gunpoint and searched them thoroughly. Then, one of the soldiers beat the journalist YAZAN after he saw pictures of soldiers on his phone and threatened him not to continue filming the events in general. The soldiers released the two journalists who were detained and tortured an hour later.

October 5th. The occupation soldiers used the vehicle of the "Roya" channel correspondent as a barrier to prevent vehicles from advancing towards the closed "Huwara" checkpoint when he stopped to take pictures after the soldiers closed the checkpoints as a result of a shooting attack at the place on Thursday evening.

In his testimony to MADA Center, the correspondent of the Roya Channel, journalist HAFEZ MAHMOUD ABU SABRA (33 years old), mentioned to MADA Center that at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, he and his colleagues from the same channel, OSAMA GHASSAN FITIANI (38 years old), the channel's cameraman MAHMOUD FAWZI (38 years old), and the journalist MAGDY SHTAYYEH, were on their way from the city of Ramallah to the city of Nablus when a shooting attack occurred near the "Einabus" roundabout while he was at the place and arrived at the "Yitzhar" junction, the checkpoint got closed, and he remained between the Hawara checkpoint and the "Yitzhar" roundabout.

The journalist stopped near the entrance to the village of Burin, south of the city of Nablus, for more than two hours, and then went down to take some pictures to close the checkpoint. Then the soldiers told him that he could continue his work provided that his vehicle placed a checkpoint at the entrance to the village to prevent cars from advancing towards the “Huwara” checkpoint, and due to the lack of options, the journalist and his colleagues remained at the site until 10:45 p.m. until the cars were allowed to move.

October 6th. Al-Hadath newspaper correspondent MUSAAB SHAWAR AL-TAMIMI was injured by a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left thigh on Friday afternoon while covering the confrontations near the military checkpoint at the entrance to Al-Shuhada Street in the city of Hebron.

According to the investigations of MADA’s field researcher, many young men gathered in the “Bab al-Zawiya” area, the center of Hebron, at around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, and they threw stones and empty bottles at the military checkpoint set up at the entrance to Al-Shuhada Street (Shuter checkpoint), and a number of occupation soldiers came out and climbed onto the rooftops of houses adjacent to the checkpoint and fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters densely and randomly at the demonstrators, in addition to live ammunition and rubber-coated metal bullets.

At approximately 12:00 noon, Al-Hadath newspaper correspondent MUSAAB SHAWAR AL-TAMIMI (28 years old) was near the checkpoint to cover the events. He moved to the old Al-Shalala Street, 10 meters away from where he was standing. During that time, the journalist was targeted with a rubber-coated metal bullet that led to his injury in the left thigh, he was transported by a private car to the government hospital in the city of Hebron, where he received the necessary treatment.

October 6th. The journalist JIHAD BARAKAT's vehicle was damaged as a result of shooting at it by the Palestinian security services, when he left it on the main street of the "Nour Shams" refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm and entered the refugee camp to cover the Islamic Jihad Movement's festival on the anniversary of its launch.

Journalist JIHAD IBRAHIM BARAKAT (34 years old), who works for Media Port, told MADA that he went on Friday to cover a festival organized by the Islamic Jihad movement on the anniversary of its launch in the “Nour Shams” refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm, and the Palestinian security services had deployed checkpoints to stop vehicles on the roads leading to the refugee camp in order to check citizens’ identities.

Journalist Jihad parked his car in the entrance opposite to the entrance of the refugee camp on the other side of the main street on the border of the refugee camp and entered in preparation for coverage.

The festival included hundreds of people, including armed men from the Tulkarm Brigade. During the festival, two special police armored vehicles passed by, and some boys threw stones at them. They responded by firing tear gas canisters, and clashes broke out between the special police and armed individuals from the refugee camp.

The Palestinian security forces later withdrew, and the event ended, and the festival activities continued. However, they returned after a short period and the clashes were renewed. After the security services withdrew the second time, journalist JIHAD entered his vehicle into the refugee camp due to the danger of passing from the main road where it was, he found that three bullets had been fired at the windshield. of the vehicle, even though its front was facing the direction opposite the refugee camp. Another bullet was fired into the roof, which was clearly fired from the back, that is, from the direction of the refugee camp.

October 6th. The occupation soldiers abused journalist MARWAN AL-AGHBAR from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission. He was also detained along with the head of the Commission, MUAYYAD SHAABAN, in “Deir Istiya” on Friday for three hours while they were there to attend and cover an event protesting the confiscation of lands and the establishment of a settlement outpost near the town.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission journalist, MARWAN BAKR AL-AGHBAR (29 years old), told MADA Center that he and the head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission went at around 12:30 noon on Friday to attend and cover an event in the town of “Deir Istiya” in Salfit Governorate, in response to an invitation to perform Friday prayers in a threatened land by confiscating, and objecting to the construction of a settlement outpost near the town.

After the prayer ended, the journalist was covering the protest event, when forces of occupation soldiers came to the place and began harassing the journalist and preventing him from photographing. One of the female soldiers also assaulted him by pushing him away from the place more than once, until the liaison officer came and asked him to go to the place tear gas canisters are being fired at citizens, but the journalist refused to obey the orders. Then the soldiers assaulted him by beating him on various parts of his body. He was handcuffed and taken into the military jeep, where he and the ALWAZEER remained detained for nearly three hours.

After ALWAZEER was arrested, and the journalist remained in the place, one of the officers approached him and asked him to open the phone, but he refused to do so. He was assaulted again, and the officer confiscated the journalist’s phone and camera. He was taken into the military jeep to a remote area, stripped naked, and there the journalist was taken out of the jeep in a cut-off area. He was not able to identify the place, and the officer returned his phone and camera to him after confiscating the memory from them.

The journalist walked until he reached the village of “Immatin” in Qalqilya at exactly six o’clock in the evening, and from there he went to the hospital to receive treatment, where it was found that there was a muscle tear in the shoulder and neck and bruises in various parts of his body.

October 6th. The freelance photojournalist ABDEL MAJEED ADWAN was injured by rubber bullets in the right arm while covering confrontations with the occupation in Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, on Friday afternoon.

In his testimony to MADA Center, the freelance photographer ABDEL MAJEED MOHAMMED ADWAN (34 years old) mentioned to MADA that he was present at around 13:30 p.m. after Friday prayers with a group of journalists and media crews covering the weekly Kafr Qaddum march, which included confrontations between citizens and occupation soldiers, and thus the firing of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.

The journalist was subjected to provocations from the occupation soldiers during coverage, as he was targeted with two tear gas canisters fired directly at him despite being 200 meters away from the soldiers. The third time, he was targeted with a rubber bullet that hit his right arm. The journalist received field treatment and was able to complete the coverage.

October 7th. The journalist MOHAMMED JARGHOUN, correspondent for Smart Media Agency, was martyred after being targeted by a gunshot while covering events in the Gaza Strip.

October 8th. Both journalists, MOHAMMED ALSALHI, who works for the “Fourth Estate” Agency, and IBRAHIM LAFI, who works for the “Ein Media” Agency, were martyred while covering the events east of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, while journalist IBRAHIM QANNAN was injured by a shrapnel from a missile that targeted Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. He was also martyred. On the same day, freelance journalist ASAAD SHAMLAKH was killed in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip, along with nine members of his family.

The whereabouts of journalists HAITHAM ABDEL WAHID and NIDAL ALWAHIDI went missing on Sunday morning and contact with them was lost while covering the events near the Beit Hanoun checkpoint. The Israeli Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reveal the fate of the missing journalists.

October 8th. The Israeli occupation forces bombed with missiles a number of residential towers that housed a group of local and foreign media institutions, which led to their complete or partial destruction.

The occupation forces destroyed the "Palestine" residential tower in the center of Gaza City with missiles, which consisted of 14 floors. The tower included many apartments and a group of media institutions that were completely destroyed as a result of the direct targeting of the tower, including: Shehab Agency, Al-Ayyam Newspaper office, Infinite Media Services, Fadel Shanaa Foundation, Gaza FM Radio, Holy Quran Radio, and Al-Quds Newspaper office.

The occupation forces targeted the "Watan Tower", located in the center of the Gaza Strip, by bombing with missiles. It is one of the largest towers in the region and it contained the headquarters of a group of media institutions that were completely destroyed, namely: "Ma'an News Agency", "Shams News Agency" office. Roya Channel, and the American APA Agency office.

A group of media institutions were partially damaged as a result of targeting the areas where their headquarters were located by bombardment with occupation missiles during the aggression on the Gaza Strip, including: the headquarters of “Palestine” TV, the office of the “French” agency, the office of the “Masdar” website, the “Methaq” Network office, Al-Aqsa Network, Sawa Agency, Baladna Radio, Zaman Radio, Khabr Agency, and the National Media Agency.

October 10th. A group of journalists and photographers were exposed to various injuries in different parts of their bodies resulting from the bombing of their homes and the areas in which they were present or to which they were displaced. Among them were: the Chief of the Journalists’ Support Committee, SALEH AL-MASRY, the journalist ALI HAMAD, the photographer of the “French” Agency, MAHMOUD AL-HAMS, France 24 correspondent, journalist MAHA ABU AL-KASS.

The Israeli missile strikes destroyed the homes of many journalists and led to the death of some of them or the loss of some or all of their family members, including: Director of “Zaman” Radio, journalist RAMI AL-SHARAFI, Broadcaster of “Al-Quds Today” Channel BASIL KHAIRUDDIN, Radio Al-Quds announcer, journalist SALAM MAYMA who was martyred, journalist ABDULLAH KARSO’ who works for the government media office, journalist AHMED SHEHAB, journalist MOATAZ AL-AZAYZA, Turkish Anatolia Agency photographer ALI JADALLAH, journalist Osaid AL-NAJJAR, journalist SALEH AL-MASRY, journalist at the Palestinian Al-Rai Agency MAHMOUD SALMI, Office Director of Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed Newspaper DIAA AL-KAHLOT, journalist at Al-Rai Agency MAYSARA SHAABAN, journalist ALAA AL-HELOU who works for Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed Newspaper, journalist at Al-Resala Newspaper DAWOUD MUSA, and journalist ZAID ABU ZAYED. In addition to journalist MUTHANNA AL-NAJJAR, who works for Al-Quds Radio, journalist AHMED QADEEH from Al-Aqsa TV, journalist MOHAMMED BALOUSHA who was martyred, journalist ABDUL HADI HABIB who was also martyred, the artist ALI NESMAN, journalist MOHAMMED ABU MATAR who was martyred, journalist ISSAM BAHAR who was also martyred, journalist HOSSAM MUBARAK was also martyred, and journalist MAHA ABU AL-KASS, Director of the Palestine Newspaper RAMI KHRAISH, journalist ZIYAD AL-MAQED from Al-Aqsa TV, Al-Shabab Radio journalist MOHAMMED ABU ALI, journalist HANI AL-MAGHARI, the house of cartoonist UMAYYAH JUHA was also bombed

October 10th. Three journalists were martyred while covering the aggression on the Gaza Strip at dawn on Sunday, while they were fleeing from the “Haji” building after being warned of the Israeli missile attack at dawn on Tuesday, which led to the immediate martyrdom of two journalists, and the third journalist was martyred in the morning after spending hours in intensive care.

According to what MADA field researcher reported, at around 2:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, journalist MUHAMMAD SOBH ABU RIZQ, a photographer for “Khabr” Agency, and journalist SAEED AL-TAWEEL, director of “Al-Khamsa” Agency, were killed immediately, while the journalist for “Khabr” agency, HISHAM ALNAWAJHA, was seriously injured and remained in intensive care until he was martyred in the morning of the same day. The three journalists were martyred while covering the evacuation of the “Haji” building located on Institutions Street in Gaza Governorate which was complete destroyed.

October 10th. A channel page called “Nazi Hunters” on Telegram, affiliated with a group of settlers, incited against journalists with statements calling for retaliation against them.

According to the investigations of MADA researcher, the page incited against J-Media journalist HATEM HAMDAN (22 years old) to be either killed or arrested, after it published his picture with a red target mark on it and wrote on the picture his name and place of residence, and that he is an activist form Hamas movements, and that they hope for justice to reach its way to him.

Freelance journalist RULA HASSANEIN (29 years old) was also incited against by the settlers’ page on Telegram via the same page by publishing her picture and writing incitement phrases against her.

October 11th. The journalist MOHAMMED MAHMOUD TURKMAN (26 years old), who works for Al Jazeera Mubasher, was subjected to incitement by a settler channel on the Telegram platform. It published a picture of the journalist and wrote on it: “Hamas terrorist journalist. He shows his works on Al Jazeera, works in various arenas, and lives in... Ramallah, and we call for him to be tried and brought to justice.”

October 11th. The journalist MOHAMMED FAYEZ YOUSEF ABU MATAR (28 years old) was martyred as a result of a bombing that targeted citizens’ homes in Rafah.

October 12th. The martyrdom of journalist AHMED SHEHAB, who worked as a program producer for “Voice of Prisoners” Radio, after the occupation forces targeted his family’s home in the Zarqa area (Jabalia), which led to the martyrdom of him and all his family members.

October 12th. UNICEF photographer IYAD ABDEL RAZZAQ AL-BABA was injured by a shrapnel in the left thigh on Thursday as a result of the occupation warplane’s bombing of the Gaza Strip.

October 12th. The journalist SALEH AL-MASRY and his wife were injured, and a number of his family members were martyred as a result of the bombing of their house by Israeli occupation warplane in Khan Yunis.

October 13th. The correspondent and broadcaster of “Sawt Al-Quds” Radio, journalist SALAM MAYMA, her husband, and her children were martyred as a result of the occupation warplane bombing their home in Jabalia refugee camp. The journalist's house was bombed on Tuesday Oct. 10th, and news spread that she, her husband, and her children were martyred, but the news of her death was confirmed after she was recovered from under the rubble, three days after the house was destroyed.

October 13th. A number of journalists were suffocated by tear gas canisters fired at them by the occupation police to prevent them from covering the repression of worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday following the aggression on the Gaza Strip.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, freelance journalist RENAD AL-SHARBATI was in the city of Jerusalem to cover the process of the worshipers arriving at Al-Aqsa Mosque, along with a group of journalists, namely: LATIFA ABDEL LATIF, MAYSAA ABU GHAZALEH, LIWAA ABU RMEILEH, GHASSAN ABU EID, BARAA ABU ROMUZ, and HEBA NAJDI, along with a group of foreign journalists.

The occupation police asked to check the journalists' press cards, but the international press card was not recognized. They told them that only holders of the Israeli press card are allowed to photograph, and they were asked to leave the place.

A group of journalists moved to the entrance of the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood where worshipers gathered to perform prayers, but before the prayer began, the worshipers were suppressed, assaulted, and pursued.

The journalists stood behind the occupation police officers, and suddenly the police officers began shouting at them to prevent them from documenting the attacks on the worshipers. They asked them to enter the homes, then they fired tear gas canister heavily.

When the journalists were able to leave the house in which they were hiding, they were suffocated with tear gas.

October 13th. The Israeli occupation forces surrounded journalists NAGHAM ZAIT and DIANA KHUWAILID near the "Geshuri" factory in the city of Tulkarm for about 4 hours and prevented them from covering a march in support of the Gaza Strip after they were targeted with live bullets on Friday.

In her testimony to MADA, journalist NAGHAM BILAL ZAIT (23 years old), who works for “West Bank” TV, said that she and journalist DIANA ABDULLAH KHUWAILID (27 years old), who works for the German News Agency, were near the “Geshuri” factory in the city of Tulkarm at about one o’clock in the afternoon, on Friday, in order to cover the march that was on its way there in support of the Gaza Strip and the people there.

The two journalists arrived at the place, wearing full press uniforms, before the demonstrators, and when the demonstrators arrived, live bullets began to be fired at everyone. Journalist NAGHAM and DIANA moved away from the demonstrators in an attempt to identify the soldiers as journalists, but the soldiers targeted them with live bullets, which led to besieging them for about 4 hours until the end of the march.

October 14th. The French satellite operator Eutelsat stopped broadcasting the signal of the Al-Aqsa TV channel. However, the Jordanian Yarmouk channel decided to transmit its broadcast via its signal on frequency V11678.

October 15th. Israeli special forces prevented a Jordanian TV correspondent from covering the “Bab al-Asbat (Lions’ Gate)” area on Sunday afternoon and threatened him that the next time he would not be arrested but would be killed.

In his testimony to a MADA researcher, the correspondent of the “Eye on Jerusalem” program on Jordanian television, journalist RAJAI AL-KHATIB, said that he went around 1:00 p.m. on Sunday to cover the events of preventing worshipers from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform the noon prayer, and he was alone carrying a camera and photographic tools and wearing the press badge on his neck, and he wanted to enter through the “Bab al-Asbat (Lions’ Gate)”.

When the members of (Al-Yassam - Special Forces) saw him, they did not wait for him to arrive to them, they approached him, prevented him from entering, and one of them photographed him on his phone to circulate his picture to their groups on the “WhatsApp” application, and they threatened him if they saw him again, “they will not arrest him, but rather put a bullet in his head.” The journalist saw the soldier loading his M16 that he was carrying in his hand as if he actually about to fire.

The soldier justified this behavior by saying that this war broke out mainly because journalists in the city of Jerusalem covered the events of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the raids and attacks on worshipers in general and the women who are standing their ground, whom he described as saboteurs in particular.

October 15th. The Israeli occupation forces targeted journalists in the vicinity of Mount Al-Arma in the town of Zeita, with live bullets more than once on Sunday to prevent them from covering the storming of the town by settlers and occupation forces.

Freelance photographer YAZAN HASHAN HAMAYEL (23 years old) told MADA that he and his colleague, freelance photographer WAHAJ BANI MUFLEH, were present at around 11:30 noon on Sunday in the vicinity of Mount Al-Arma in the eastern region of the town of Zeita, south of the city of Nablus, to cover the incursion of settlers and occupation soldiers.

The two photographers took a large rock as a cover and stood in the background in order to start broadcasting the events live for the J-Media Agency. During that time, they were targeted by live bullets being fired directly at them, despite them wearing full journalistic uniforms.

October 15th. Israeli occupation forces arrested journalist SABRI JIBRIL after storming his home in the town of Tuqu', south of the city of Bethlehem, at dawn on Sunday.

In his testimony to MADA researcher, TARIQ JIBRIL, the brother of journalist SABRI, said that at around three o’clock in the morning on Sunday Oct. 15th, the Israeli occupation forces, numbering five military vehicles, stormed the town of Tuqu’, south of the city of Bethlehem, and were stationed in the center of the town, and their members, numbering 25 soldiers, raided the house of “J-Media” Agency reporter’s family, SABRI MUSA KHALAF JIBRIL (32 years old), after breaching the house with a special tool they had.

The soldiers detained the family members of four in one room, while the journalist was taken after he handed over his ID card to one of the soldiers in the military vehicles parked in front of the house. The soldiers searched the house thoroughly for 20 minutes and vandalized its contents, scattering furniture, breaking antiques, and throwing clothes on the floor.

The journalist was transferred to an unknown destination, and his family still does not know his whereabouts.

October 15th. The occupation army arrested the photojournalist at Ma'an News Agency, ABDEL NASSER MOHAMMED AL-LAHAM (22 years old), from his family home in the Deheisheh refugee camp, south of the city of Bethlehem.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, journalist MOHAMMED AL-LAHAM, the father of photographer ABDEL NASSER, stated that at approximately 6:00 a.m. on Sunday Oct. 15th, an occupation army force stormed their house in the Deheisheh refugee camp, south of the city of Bethlehem, after it blew up the outer gate and opened the door. They used special tools they had, and the soldiers spread in the house, while journalist MUHAMMAD AL-LAHHAM tried to talk to the soldiers about the reason for detaining his son and his mother on the first floor. During that time, three soldiers attacked him, beat him, and knocked him to the ground, while a soldier tried to suffocate him before another soldier intervened and took him away from him.

Meanwhile, the soldiers searched the house and tampered with its contents. They took photographer ABDEL NASSER outside the house, handcuffed him, blindfolded him, and escorted him to military jeeps.

One of the soldiers confiscated the phone of journalist MUHAMMAD AL-LAHAM, and when he followed them to retrieve his phone, the soldier threatened to shoot him. Later, a citizen found the phone lying near a pile of garbage next to the house.

October 15th. Members of the occupation police physically and verbally assaulted journalist RAJAI AL-KHATIB while he was performing his journalistic work in “Bab al-Asbat (Lions’ Gate)” in the Old City of Jerusalem. They pulled their weapons at him, and one of the soldiers told him, “If you do not leave the place, we will shoot you in the head instead of talking to you.”

October 16th. The occupation police detained the "Russia Today" channel crew on Sunday afternoon on their way to the city of Ashkelon and prevented them from performing their work under false pretexts, despite the reporter wearing a press uniform, carrying a microphone, and the cameraman and cameras being with him, and seized their ID cards.

According to the investigations of MADA researcher, RT correspondent of Russia Today Channel, journalist DALIA AL-NIMRI, headed towards the city of Ashkelon at around eleven in the morning, to cover the war that broke out a few days ago (October 7th, 2023), and there was no type of clashes, security alert, or any event that requires assaulting her, obstructing her work, or preventing her from coverage.

At the crossroads called "Shork" between Jerusalem and Ashkelon, the reporter received a call from the Channel's HQ to broadcast live. She had told them that she would go to that area to cover the bombing, and that the live broadcast was expected to stop at any time due to settler assaults.

While she was preparing for the live broadcast at exactly eleven o’clock, an Israeli police car headed towards her, and DALIA remained standing in front of the camera, holding the microphone and the logo of the Channel (Russia Today, RT), and the photographer gave the police officer their ID cards. After the broadcast ended, another female police officer got out of the car, with the arrival of a second police car and another police officer got out. DALIA told him that she was heading towards the south and that this area had nothing to do with filming, but she was forced to stop here for the live broadcast.

When she finished broadcasting live, six members of the border guards carrying weapons headed towards her, and she told them that she did not know that standing in this area was forbidden. Then one of them, an “Ethiopian,” told her, and she responded to him that she wanted to communicate with the police spokesman, as he knew them as journalists, and another answered her: "Talk to whoever you want, we don't care."

DALIA contacted the police spokesman, who did not provide assistance and told her that “the area is under army command.” At this moment, the “Ethiopian” soldier approached her and shouted: “Turn off your phone, you are under arrest and cannot use it.” He asked her to leave the phone in the bag and asked her if the camera was working. She replied that it was off and he asked her to put it in the car.

DALIA asked how long she would remain detained because she had to appear on a live broadcast at twelve o’clock, and the “Ethiopian” shouted at her again, saying, “Enough questions, I can stop you here for three hours. What do you think?”

The policeman returned to them and told them that their file was now with the “Intelligence Unit” and that if he saw them again anywhere, he would arrest them without justification. Then he returned their IDs to them and let them leave the place.

October 16th. ABDUL HADI HABIB, a journalist for UNRWA, was martyred along with a number of his family members in an Israeli bombing that targeted his house near the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip.

October 16th. The Israeli occupation forces arrested J-Media agency photographer MOATH AMARNEH from his home in the “Deheisheh” refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem at dawn on Monday, confiscated his mobile phone and took him to an unknown destination.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, an Israeli occupation army force (12 soldiers) raided the house of the photojournalist for J-Media Agency, MOATH IBRAHIM ATTA AMARNEH (32 years old), in the “Deheisheh” refugee camp, south of the city of Bethlehem. They opened the main door of the house using breaching tools, especially when she was with them.

A number of soldiers stormed the house, and the journalist came forward and introduced himself. The soldiers handcuffed his hands, while one of the soldiers brought a phone and asked the journalist to speak to one of the officers in an audible voice. The officer asked him on the phone about the nature of his work, and he answered that he was a journalist, and the officer told him that he was detained on an incitement charge.

The soldiers left 15 minutes after storming the house without any vandalism or search of the house, while the journalist’s “Galaxy 23 Ultra” mobile phone was confiscated.

According to the family of journalist Moath, the journalist’s glasses were broken during his arrest, and the Israeli authorities did not allow him to wear the “artificial eye” that he uses as a replacement for the eye that he lost due to an injury in 2019. The journalist also needs his diabetes medication, and he needs the analgesic medications that he takes as a pain reliever for persistent headache as a result of the injury. On Sunday, October 29, the journalist was transferred to administrative detention for six months.

October 16th. The Israeli occupation forces arrested Al-Aqsa TV correspondent, journalist MUSTAFA AL-KHAWAJA, at dawn on Monday, after storming his home in the town of Ni'lin and taking him to an unknown destination.

HAMADA AL-KHAWAJA, the journalist’s brother, MADA Center researcher, reported that around three o’clock in the morning on Monday, seven military vehicles from the occupation forces stormed the house of his brother, Al-Aqsa TV correspondent, MUSTAFA ABDEL-RAZZAQ AL-KHAWAJA (34 years old), located in the village of “Ni'lin,” northwest of the city of Ramallah, and surrounded the house with twenty soldiers who arrived at the outer gate of the house and opened it using special breaching tools.

The soldiers approached the door of the house where journalist MUSTAFA had woken up from his sleep and opened the door. The soldiers asked him to approach them and show his personal identification. After verifying his identity, they handcuffed his hands, confiscated his mobile phone, and arrested him.

The occupation soldiers left the journalist’s house at around 3:50 a.m., and his family did not know where he was taken.

October 16th. The Israeli occupation army closed the J-Media News Agency and suspended its work by military decision without specifying a specific period for this measure.

The director of the “J-Media” network, ALAA HASSAN JAMIL AL-RIMAWI (43 years old), told MADA Center that he did not know about this decision until after it spread through the media and that no official body had informed him of it, as he was surprised by the occupation army’s decision to stop the Agency’s work without specifying a certain period, according to the distributed decision.

October 16th. The Israeli Intelligence Service summoned the freelance journalist AHMED AL-SAFADI for an interview, and when the journalist arrived at the appointed time, he remained waiting and left the investigation center without meeting the officer under the pretext of being busy.

Freelance journalist AHMED AL-SAFADI mentioned in his testimony to MADA that he received a phone call from the Israeli Intelligence Service “Shabak” on the evening of Monday, October 16th, asking him to be investigated on Wednesday.

The journalist went to the headquarters of the “Al-Qashla” Investigation Center on Wednesday, October 18th, and waited for about 20 minutes. The police officers then told him that the senior officer was busy and will not be able to meet him.

After leaving the headquarters, he received another message to schedule another interview, but the journalist refused because they did not respect time.

October 17th. Al-Aqsa TV journalist ISSAM BAHAR and his wife were martyred, and a number of his family members were injured as a result of the bombing on the Gaza Strip.

October 17th. The administrative and financial director of the "Palestine Today" Channel, journalist MUHAMMAD BAALOUSHA, was martyred in an air strike that targeted his house in the "Al-Safawi" neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip.

October 18th. Journalist SAMIH AL-NADI (55 years old), Director of Al-Aqsa TV, was martyred in the occupation warplane’s bombing of the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday evening.

October 18th. Journalist SAED AL-SUWAYRKI lost several members of his family after occupation forces missiles bombed his family home, and he continued to carry out his message and cover the aggression taking place in the Gaza Strip.

October 18th. The Palestinian Security Services obstructed the work of the Roya TV crew and prevented them from covering a demonstrators’ march near Joseph’s Tomb in the city of Nablus on Wednesday afternoon, as bullets were fired into the air and a stun grenade was thrown at them, the fragments of which slightly injured the reporter’s thigh.

The correspondent of Roya TV, MADA Center, reported that at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, he was present on Amman Street in the city of Nablus to cover the march that was supposed to head to the “Huwara” checkpoint, but the demonstrators decided to change its course and head to Joseph’s Tomb area instead.

When the march reached the journalists, there was a presence of Palestinian Security Services. The demonstrators began throwing stones, and the security services responded by firing tear gas canisters and live bullets.

The situation continued for about ten minutes, and suddenly the security forces - in civilian clothes - approached the journalists and one of them asked the cameraman MAHMOUD FAWZI to disconnect the camera during the live broadcast, so the reporter, HAFEZ, asked him to give him time until the signal was disconnected. But another member came and started shouting at the demonstrators and journalists, which led to a stun grenade being thrown directly next to the journalists, and one of its fragments hit the thigh of journalist HAFEZ, slightly wounding him.

Another officer came and fired shots into the air and asked the crew to leave the place.

October 19th. A channel called “Nazi Hunters” on Telegram, which belongs to a group of settlers, incited against the channel’s “Syrian” correspondent, YAFFA THEEB NAJJARA (27 years old), as they published the journalist’s photo, name, and place of work, describing her as a Nazi, and demanding that the law be applied to her and that she is punished.

October 19th. The occupation forces arrested journalist IMAD ABU AWAD from his workplace at the “You Smart” center at dawn on Thursday and took him to an unknown destination.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, a force of Israeli occupation forces stormed at around 3:00 a.m. on Thursday, the journalist IMAD MAHMOUD HAMMAD ABU AWWAD (39 years old), who works as director of the “You Smart” center, where the soldiers detained the journalist in one of the rooms, while other soldiers searched the center, which included sabotage of the center’s contents. They confiscated his personal phone and his laptop. After about 10 minutes, the journalist was arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

October 19th. Journalist ALAA AL-RIMAWI turned himself in to Ofer detention center, after the occupation forces raided his home in the city of Ramallah at dawn on Thursday and arrested his son to pressure him to turn himself in.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, an Israeli occupation army force stormed the Al-Irsal neighborhood in the city of Ramallah at around three o’clock in the morning on Thursday, and the soldiers raided the house of the director of the “J-Media” Agency, ALAA HASSAN AL-RIMAWI (45 years old), who was present in Hospital for medical examinations.

The soldiers arrested the journalist's son, MOHAMMED, and informed the family that journalist AL-RIMAWI should go to the "Ofer" camp, west of the city of Ramallah, to turn himself in there.

At approximately 10:00 a.m., journalist AL-RIMAWI turned himself in at “Ofer” detention center and was transferred to an unknown destination.

October 19th. Journalist KHALIL ABU ATHRAH, photographer for Al-Aqsa TV, was martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted him and his brother in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, north of Rafah.

October 19th. Israeli occupation warplane targeted the home of freelance journalist HAZEM BIN SAEED east of Deir Al-Balad, leading to the death of him and a number of his family members.

October 20th. Al-Shabab Radio journalist MUHAMMAD ABU ALI was martyred as a result of the occupation warplane’s bombing of the northern Gaza Strip.

October 20th. The occupation forces arrested the director of the “Space Media” Organization and the Head of the Media Department in the Hebron municipality, journalist THAER ZIAD AL-FAKHOURI, from his home in the city of Hebron at dawn on Friday.

In his testimony to a researcher at MADA Center, the father of journalist THAER ZIAD AL-FAKHOURI (32 years old) mentioned to MADA Center that at around one o’clock in the morning on Friday, the Israeli occupation forces surrounded their house in the “Al-Bassa” area, the southern neighborhood of the city of Hebron.

The occupation soldiers raided the two-story house and detained journalist THAER’s family, consisting of his wife and children, on the first floor with the rest of the family. Journalist THAER and his brother QUSAY were detained in a room and subjected to field investigation. A number of other soldiers began searching the rooms of the house and scattered its contents. At approximately 1:15 a.m., the soldiers took the journalist AL-FAKHOURI, after handcuffing and blindfolding him, to the military jeeps. They also confiscated the journalist’s phone and the keys to his vehicle, and until this moment the family does not know where he is being held.

October 20th. The Israeli occupation forces arrested freelance journalist MUSAB KHAMIS QAFISHA (30 years old) and his brother QASSAM from their home in the city of Hebron at dawn on Friday and transferred them to an unknown destination.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, the journalist’s brother stated that at around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, an occupation army force stormed the house of journalist MUSAB in the western neighborhood of Hebron, which consists of four residential apartments, where the soldiers asked the journalist MUSAB and his brother QASSAM to leave the house, and as soon as they left, they handcuffed them and took them to military jeeps and took them to an unknown destination. No confiscation or search of the house was reported.

October 21st. Journalist MAALI ABU SAMRA was injured while being targeted by occupation warplanes west of Deir al-Balah.

October 21st. Al-Aqsa TV journalist HANI AL-MADHOUN, his wife, children and grandchildren were martyred after their house was bombed at dawn on Saturday.

October 21st. The occupation forces targeted with missiles the home of journalist FIRAS AL-SHAER in the Al-Salam neighborhood, southeast of Rafah, wounding him and killing 3 members of his family.

October 21st. The martyrdom of journalist HOSSAM MUBARAK, one of the cadres of the “Sawt Al-Aqsa” Radio, on Friday evening, 2023, during an Israeli bombing in the northern Gaza Strip.

October 22nd. The Israeli occupation forces raided the “Dar Al-Isra” library in the city of Hebron and confiscated part of its contents at dawn on Sunday.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, Israeli occupation soldiers stormed the city of Hebron at around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday and stationed themselves in the vicinity of the “Dar Al-Isra” library, opposite Hebron University.

The soldiers tried to open the main door of the library using special tools, but a relative of the library owner handed over the key to them. The soldiers raided the library and searched it for about half an hour, then confiscated three large printers, 4 color printers, and 8 computers.

The soldiers closed the library door with pieces of iron and made a report of what was confiscated. The material losses resulting from the raid and confiscation of devices are estimated at 70 thousand shekels, in addition to the economic losses resulting from the closure, as two employees work in the aforementioned library. It should be noted that the occupation forces raided the library more than five times during the previous years and some of its contents were confiscated.

October 22nd. The director of "Ein Media" Company, photojournalist RUSHDI ALSIRRAJ, was martyred in an occupation bombing of his home in Gaza.

October 23rd. The occupation forces detained freelance journalist AKRAM DERIA at the Gush Etzion checkpoint for three hours while he was returning home from the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem. He was released and returned for the interview the next day.

According to field investigations conducted by the MADA Center, Israeli occupation soldiers stationed at the military checkpoint near the town of "Beit Fajjar," close to the "Gush Etzion" settlement, detained the vehicle carrying journalist AKRAM ALI DERIA (38 years old) and three of his relatives at around 3:00 p.m. on Monday as they were returning from a visit to a family member in Beit Fajjar.

Everyone in the vehicle was physically searched, and their ID cards were scanned. At around 4:00, the soldiers returned all the ID cards, kept the identity of journalist AKRAM DERIA, and informed him that he was detained.

The soldier took the journalist DERIA to the opposite side, handcuffed him, and made him sit on the ground until 7:00 pm, until an Israeli intelligence officer came and told him to leave and come to the interview the next morning at 9:00 a.m., at the intelligence service headquarters, in the settlement.

At approximately 9:00 a.m. the next day, October 24th, journalist DERIA, accompanied by one of his relatives, went to the military liaison headquarters in the “Gush Etzion” settlement. The journalist entered the waiting room, which was empty. He waited for about ten minutes, but none of the soldiers came out to him. Then he went to the area opposite the military liaison headquarters and asked the soldiers through the external speaker installed at the gate, where they informed him that there was no one to conduct the interview, and after waiting in the place for about half an hour, the journalist left the place for his home.

October 23rd. The Israeli occupation forces arrested freelance journalist MOHAMMED SABBAH from his home in the “Jalazoun” refugee camp in the city of Ramallah at dawn on Monday and took him to the “Ofer” camp despite his inability to walk.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, at around 4:00 a.m. on Monday, Israeli occupation soldiers stormed the house of freelance journalist MOHAMMED AHMAD ATTA SABBAH (31 years old) in the “Jalazoun” refugee camp in the city of Ramallah, and without conducting any search, the soldiers asked the journalist to accompanying them outside even though the journalist suffers from inability to move due to an old injury to his legs.

The soldiers accompanied the journalist - who walked with the help of a “walker” device - until he reached the main street in front of the house. Then the soldiers transported him by stretcher, and he remained on the street until seven in the morning until the end of the military operation in the refugee camp, and then he was arrested. The family later learned that journalist SABBAH was in Ofer prison, west of Ramallah.

October 24th. The occupation forces targeted the house of the father of the journalist at “Sawt Al-Quds” Radio, MOHAMMED MAQAT, with their warplane in the “Tunnel” area in Gaza, which led to the martyrdom of his parents and sister.

October 24th. Journalist MOHAMMED IMAD SAEED LABAD (27 years old), who works for the Al-Resala Media Foundation, was martyred as a result of a bombing near his home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.

October 25th. Freelance journalist SALMA MUKHAIMER (31 years old), along with her infant child, her father, her mother, and a number of her family members, were martyred in an Israeli air strike on the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. MUKHAIMER, who lives in the Jordanian capital, Amman, had gone to the Gaza Strip on a surprise visit to her family, making it her last visit.

October 25th. The director of the Rawasy Palestine Foundation, journalist MUHAMMAD FAYEZ AL-HASSANI, and his family were martyred as a result of the bombing by Israeli forces that targeted a house to which the journalist had fled after his house was bombed and destroyed on October 12th.

October 25th. Journalist JAMAL MUHAMMAD AL-FAQAWI, who works for the Methaq Media Foundation, was martyred as a result of the bombing of his house in Khan Yunis on Tuesday.

October 25th. The occupation forces bombed the house of Al Jazeera correspondent, journalist WAEL AL-DAHDOUH, in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, with their warplane, leading to the death of a number of his family members, including his wife and children.

October 26th. the Israeli occupation forces bombed with missiles the home of SA’ED AL-HALABI, a journalist for the Al-Aqsa Media Network, in Jabalia refugee camp at dawn on Wednesday, leading to his martyrdom. Journalist AHMED ABU MAHDI, who works for Al-Aqsa TV, was also martyred the same morning.

October 26th. The Israeli occupation forces arrested freelance journalist RADWAN ABDEL QADER QATNANI from his home in the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, at dawn on Wednesday.

ALI AL-QATNANI, brother of journalist RADWAN, reported that a force of occupation soldiers stormed their house at around two o’clock in the morning on Wednesday in the Askar refugee camp, east of the city of Nablus, where they took down the main door, and the journalist was present in his brother’s house. The officer called RADWAN and asked him to come to the house, then he arrested him and took him to an unknown destination.

October 26th. The Israeli occupation forces bombed the home of journalist DUAA SHARAF in the northern Gaza Strip, who works for “Sawt Al-Aqsa” radio, leading to the death of her and her child on Thursday morning.

October 26th. The Israeli occupation forces arrested writer and journalist LAMA KHATER from her home in the city of Hebron at dawn on Tuesday and took her to “Hasharon” detention center.

According to the investigations of MADA’s field researcher, at around two o’clock in the morning on Tuesday, a force of occupation soldiers stormed the journalist’s house in the Loza area in the western neighborhood of Hebron.

The soldiers began knocking on the door of the house of HAZEM AL-FAKHOURI - the journalist’s husband - LAMA ABDEL-MUTTALIB AL-FAKHOURI - KHATER (42 years old). When the door was opened, the soldiers pushed the journalist’s husband and asked him to bring forth everyone in the house. They also asked the journalist to stay in a single room for five minutes, and then he brought her with the rest of the family. An intelligence officer came and spoke to the journalist about the events in Gaza, then he showed pictures of murdered children and said, “You are responsible for what happened there,” and uttered obscene words against the family.

The officer informed the journalist that she was detained and asked her to accompany the female soldiers around three in the morning. The soldiers also damaged the tires of the vehicle OF HAZEM AL-FAKHOURI, the journalist’s husband, and drew the Star of David logo on the front of the vehicle. The journalist is currently in Hasharon prison, as the family later learned.

October 26th. On Thursday evening, occupation intelligence forced the director of “Dream” Radio in the city of Hebron to stop broadcasting the radio on the grounds that it was disrupting military aircraft communications.

According to the investigations of the MADA Center researcher, the director of “Dream” Radio in the city of Hebron, journalist TALAB AL-JAABARI, received a phone call from an Israeli intelligence officer stating that the radio frequency affects military aircraft communications. He asked journalist AL-JAABARI to stop broadcasting at five in the evening on the same day until another notice. He also threatened him that if the broadcast was not stopped, they would destroy the radio headquarters and confiscate its contents.

October 27th. The occupation forces arrested freelance journalist BILAL ARMAN from his home in the town of Kharbatha Bani Harith at dawn on Friday and took him to an unknown destination.

According to the investigations of MADA researcher, the occupation forces stormed the village of “Kharbatha Bani Harith,” west of the city of Ramallah, at around 4:30 a.m. on Friday, and surrounded the house of freelance journalist BILAL MUHAMMAD HASSAN ARMAN (26 years old), where the journalist opened the door after soldiers knocked so that they do not break it. Meanwhile, the soldiers asked the journalist for his name, and asked him to bring his personal ID and mobile phone. Then the journalist changed his clothes and bid farewell to his wife and child and was transferred to an unknown destination.

October 27th. Freelance journalist YASSER SOBHI ABU NAMOUS and his mother were martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted his home in Khan Yunis, Gaza.

October 28th. The occupation forces arrested journalist SUJOUD ASSI from her home in the town of Beit Liqya after barbarically searching the house and confiscating a number of electronic devices. Then, she was taken to Ofer detention center to pressure her journalist husband, MOHAMMED, to turn himself in.

In her testimony to MADA, journalist SUJOUD RIBHI ASSI (29 years old) who works for Al-Hadath newspaper said that at around 4:00 a.m. on Saturday, the occupation forces stormed her house in the town of Beit Liqya, searched it, vandalized its contents, and confiscated all electronic devices, 9 mobile phones and 3 laptops.

The journalist was taken into a single room and was physically strip-searched, her hands were tied, and she was verbally assaulted. They also interrogated her on the ground for a quarter of an hour about the whereabouts of her journalist husband, MOHAMMED, and about the events taking place in the settlements. She was not allowed to change her clothes, nor was she allowed to take her medications with her, knowing that she was pregnant, except after screaming and insistence on her part. She was taken on foot for about half an hour from her home to the Beit Sira checkpoint, and then they blindfolded her and placed her on the floor of the bus.

The journalist was transferred to Ofer Detention Center and was left with male recruits for an hour. Then she was transferred to a very dirty room with a foul smell, where she remained for about half an hour.

She was taken to the investigation rooms in Ofer and searched naked. She was interrogated by district official and the official of the Ramallah district captains. They asked her about her name, the number of her children, and her husband. She was threatened with her family and that she would be administratively detained as an alternative to her husband, his brothers, and his father. After her husband learned of her arrest, he turned himself in. At approximately 4:30 p.m. on the same day, journalist SUJOUD, his wife, was released.

October 28th. Freelance journalist MOHAMMED SALEH BADR (34 years old) surrendered himself to the occupation forces on Saturday evening, after they arrested his wife, journalist SUJOUD ASSI, to pressure him to surrender himself at dawn on Saturday.

The occupation forces arrested journalist SUJOUD ASSI, who works with Al-Hadath newspaper in Ramallah, to pressure her husband, journalist MOHAMMED BADR, to surrender himself after storming the family home in the village of Beit Liqya, west of Ramallah, at dawn on Saturday, destroying its contents and confiscating electronic devices. However, they released her after her journalist husband turned himself in.

On Saturday, October 22nd, the occupation forces arrested the father of journalist BADR and his two brothers from their home in the town of Beit Liqya in the city of Ramallah to pressure the journalist to turn himself in, but he did not do so at the time.

The journalist had received a call from an officer in the occupation authorities telling him that "he must turn himself in despite the absence of any charges or cases against him, but the freed prisoners must remain detained.”

October 29th. The occupation forces prevented journalists and media crews from covering the Gaza Strip border on Sunday and fired smoke bombs to force them to leave, and asked them to evacuate the Sderot area, north of Beit Hanoun, under the pretext that it is a closed military zone.

According to the investigations of MADA’s field researcher, the correspondent of the “Eye on Jerusalem” program on Jordanian television, journalist RAJAI AL-KHATIB, has been present for about ten days with a large group of media crews, including the BBC, CNN, Israeli television, and a number of foreign journalists.

The event was not targeting a specific media outlet, but rather it was circulated to all those present in the Sderot area, north of Beit Hanoun, including Israeli television. This was done in a strict and sharp tone, so much so that they did not leave room to arrange or disassemble the tools, so they carried their tools as they were in their cars and moved quickly.

October 29th. The occupation authorities arrested journalist NAWAF AL-AMER from his home in the village of Kafr Qalil, south of Nablus, at dawn on Sunday and took him to an unknown destination despite his need for special medical care.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, a force of occupation forces, about 15 soldiers, stormed the house of Sanad Agency correspondent, journalist NAWAF IBRAHIM MOHAMMED AMER (62 years old), in the village of Kafr Qalil, south of the city of Nablus, where the soldiers detained the family members in a room. They quickly searched the house and confiscated his personal phone.

The soldiers arrested the journalist at around 4:00 a.m. on Sunday and took him to an unknown destination, noting that he suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes, disc prolapsed disease, and atherosclerosis, and needs special care.

October 29th. The occupation forces arrested Karama Radio correspondent ZAKARIA ABU FANAR from his home in the city of Yatta, south of Hebron Governorate, at dawn on Sunday and took him to an unknown destination.

The journalist’s father reported to MADA researcher that at around 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, a force of 20 occupation soldiers stormed the house of “Karama Radio” correspondent, journalist ZAKARIA ISMAIL ATALLAH ABU FANAR (28 years old), in the “Ziv Roundabout” area, north of the city of "Yatta" south of Hebron Governorate after opening the door using special breaching tools.

The soldiers deployed into the house and gathered its 15 members into one room. They searched the house and checked the ID cards of all the individuals. After half an hour, they took the journalist out of the house, handcuffed him, blindfolded him, and transported him in military jeeps to an unknown destination.

October 30th. Journalist NAZMI AL-NADIM and a number of his family members were martyred in the bombing of his home in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the Gaza Strip.

October 31st. Palestine TV journalists MAJED KASHKO and IMAD AL-WAHIDI and members of their family were martyred as a result of the occupation’s targeting of journalists in the Gaza Strip, while the occupation forces targeted the home of Al-Aqsa Channel correspondent, journalist MUHAMMAD ARAB, by bombing it with their missiles.

October 31st. Occupation intelligence summoned freelance journalist LOUAY OMAR on Tuesday and interrogated him for about an hour about his media work, then released him after threatening him with the possibility of arresting him from his home at any time.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, freelance journalist LOUAY MAHBASH AMR (28 years old) received a phone call at one o’clock in the afternoon on Tuesday from an Israeli intelligence officer to investigate in the “Gush Etzion” detention center, south of the city of “Bethlehem,” within half an hour.

The journalist went immediately, and as soon as he arrived at three o'clock, one of the soldiers came and took him to one of the military rooms. The journalist was searched in a humiliating manner after he was forced to take off part of his clothes, then he sat on the ground and the passing soldiers deliberately kicked him with their feet.

The journalist remained on the ground until 4:30 p.m., when he was entered into the investigation room, and the officer began threatening to arrest him on charges of affiliation to the Hamas movement, which the journalist categorically denied. The investigation continued with the threat, and the officer told the journalist that he had to be careful and that he could go to arrest him from the house at any time, claiming that he had stopped the decision to arrest him earlier, and the journalist left the place after about an hour of investigation.

October 31st. The Israeli occupation forces bombed the house of the broadcast director at Al Jazeera's office in the Gaza Strip, leading to the death of 18 members of his family.

October 31st. The Minister of the Occupation Army issued an announcement classifying the Al-Qastal News Network, which specializes in news on the occupied city of Jerusalem, as a terrorist organization.

Al-Qastal Network is considered independent, licensed, and operates according to the systems of free journalistic work and does not belong to anyone or be affiliated with any party. Despite this decision, the network is continuing its work in covering Palestinian news, especially from the city of Jerusalem, and will seek to nullify this decision.

[1] During the period covered by the report, the number of journalist martyrs reached 31, but the final toll is higher and likely to rise every day.

[2] Amnesty International statement dated 20 October 2023:

https://www.amnesty.org/ar/latest/news/2023/10/damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-as-israeli-attacks-wipe-out-entire-families-in-gaza/

[3] Field researchers working at the MADA Center were unable to communicate with the center’s staff for long periods as a result of the power outage and internet services, which led to difficulty communicating and documenting the various violations to which journalists and media organizations were exposed. Perhaps the numbers contained in this report do not reflect the true numbers of crimes committed against Journalists and media institutions during the period covered by the report.