Israeli Violations:

Despite the apparent decrease in the number of documented Israeli violations during November, as MADA documented a total of 97 Israeli violations against media freedoms compared to 179 violations documented during the previous month, October. However, this does not mean that any change has occurred in the Israeli policy towards Palestinian media freedoms. Therefore, the documented Israeli violations continue to represent the largest number in terms of the type and severity of danger to the lives of journalists and media freedoms in general. The above showed the killings of a total of 23 Palestinian journalists during the past month, and even extended to encompass Lebanese journalists, as the Israeli occupation forces targeted the reporter FARAH OMAR and the cameraman RABIE MAAMARI with a clear targeting on the border between Israel and Lebanon on Nov. 21^st.

The Israeli targeting did not stop at Gaza Strip, but the occupation authorities practiced the most severe and grave violations against media freedoms in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where MADA Center documented a total of 60 violations against journalists and media institutions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

At the forefront were the arrests of journalists, which began as part of a systematic campaign against them since the seventh of October and is still continuing to this day. The occupation authorities arrested 14 journalists during the past month, most of whom are still in detention, and physically assaulted 11 journalists, 3 of them in Gaza Strip, while detaining 11 journalists and obstructing their work, either while covering various events in the West Bank and Jerusalem or before they arrived in the coverage areas, and also prevented seven journalists directly from covering, and seven others were targeted with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters (3 of them in Gaza Strip) to prevent them from covering and documenting crimes committed against Palestinian civilians everywhere.

Not only did the occupation forces kill 23 journalists in Gaza Strip, but also issued public threats to kill them, just because they cover the criminal operations of the Israelis, as happened with journalists HASSAN ISLAIH, MUTHANA AL-NAJJAR, and ANAS AL-SHARIF, while Israeli parties incited against two Jerusalem journalists in a way that may affect their lives, namely the journalist for the Al-Kufiyyah TV, MANAR AL-SHWAIKI, whom a group created by settlers on "Telegram" known as "Nazi Hunters" incited against her, and journalist HANA MAHAMID, who was lured by an Israeli journalist for Jerusalem Post who filmed an incitement video against her, and the journalist received many threats and insults after it was published.

The occupying forces also seized and destroyed the equipment of seven journalists, one of them in Gaza Strip, and while the Israeli bombardment destroyed three headquarters of media institutions (Agence France-Presse, Al-Jazeera, and Al-Sharq TV), the occupation authorities closed two printing presses and a library in the city of Hebron and seized their equipment. It issued a decision to ban Al-Mayadeen TV, suspend its operation, and seized its equipment. On the other hand, the security cabinet announced its approval of regulations allowing the closure of foreign media outlets.

 

Social Media Violations:

Despite the suspicious increase in the number of violations committed by social media platforms and companies during November and continuing for the second month in a row against citizens in general, including journalists, it was not possible to document such in numbers and details as usual. Most of these violations occurred among journalists and against media organizations in Gaza Strip, but the difficult conditions in Gaza Strip in addition to what most journalists – including field researchers of MADA Center – were exposed to, led to the loss of communication. 

#	Journalist Name	Date of Martyrdom	Workplace
1	IYAD MATAR	Nov. 1st 2023	Al-Aqsa TV
2	MAJD ARANDAS	Nov. 2nd 2023	Al-Jamaheer Website
3	MOHAMMED ALBAYYARI	Nov. 2nd 2023	Al-Aqsa TV
4	MOHAMMED ABU HATAB	Nov. 2nd 2023	Palestine TV
5	HAITHAM HARARAH	Nov. 3rd 2023	Government Information Office
6	MOHAMMED ALJAJAH	Nov. 6th 2023	Press House
7	MOHAMMED ABU HASIRAH	Nov. 7th 2023	WAFA Agency
8	AHMED ALQARA	Nov. 10th 2023	Al-Aqsa University Cameraman
9	AHMED FATIMA	Nov. 13th 2023	Press House
10	ISSAM MAWASI	Nov. 13th 2023	Al-Jazeera
11	MOUSA ALBARSH	Nov. 13th 2023	Nama’ Radio
12	MAHMOUD MATAR	Nov. 15th, 2023	Civil Defense
13	AMRO SALAH ABU HAYYAH	Nov. 18th 2023	Al-Aqsa TV
14	SARI MANSOUR	Nov. 18th 2023	Al-Quds TV
15	HASSOUNAH SALEEM	Nov. 18th 2023	Journalist
16	ABDELHALEEM AWAD	Nov. 18th 2023	Journalist
17	MONTASER ALSAWWAF	Nov. 18th 2023	Anadolu Agency
18	MUSTAFA ALSAWWAF	Nov. 18th 2023	Journalist
19	AMAL ZAHED	Nov. 20th 2023	Journalist
20	MUSAB ASHOUR	Nov, 18th  2023	Journalist
21	AMAL ZUHD	Nov, 20th 2023	Journalist
22	ALAA ALHASANAT	Nov. 20th 2023	Journalist
23	AYAT ALKHDOUR	Nov. 20th 2023	Journalist
24	ALA NEMER	Nov. 20th 2023	Voice over
25	JAMAL HANIEH	Nov. 21st 2023	Amwaj
26	ASEM ALBARSH	Nov. 22nd 2023	Al-Ray Palestinian Agency
27	MOHAMMED NABEEL ALZIQ	Nov. 22nd 2023	Quds Today TV
28	MOHAMMED MUEN AYYASH	Nov. 23rd 2023	Photojournalist
29	MUSTAFA BAKIR	Nov. 23rd 2023	Al-Quds TV
30	HUTHAIFA LULU	Nov. 24th 2023	Tayf Radio

 

Details of violations:

(Nov. 1^st) Al-Aqsa TV journalist IYAD MATAR and his mother were killed by the bombardment of the Israeli occupation army in the central governorate of Gaza Strip.

(Nov. 2^nd) Israeli police targeted journalist DANA ABU SHAMSIYEH with tear gas canisters on Thursday afternoon while covering the prevention of worshippers from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, which led to her suffocation and field treatment in the ambulance and then in Al-Makassed Hospital.

The freelance journalist DANA ABU SHAMSIYEH reported that she was covering the event for "Cairo News" TV with a group of journalists in the town of "Wadi Joz" in Jerusalem, and there were no events that required the use of violence by the Israeli police, but at 12:00PM, the police began targeting the journalist with gas canisters, despite standing with the cameraman away from the place where the worshipers were, and wearing a protective shield and standing in front of the camera, where she was targeted with four bombs, which led to inhaling a large amount of gas, nausea and shortness of breath.

The journalist was treated in the field and underwent an ECG examination in the ambulance until she arrived at Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem, where she underwent some tests due to rapid heartbeat, and when the results of the examination appeared, she returned home.

(Nov. 2^nd) MAJD FADL ARANDAS, a journalist for Al-Jamahir Website, was killed during a bombing next to his house in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza Strip, and MOHAMMED AL-BAYYARI, a journalist for Al-Aqsa TV, was killed on the same day by Israeli bombing on Gaza.

(Nov. 2^nd) A page run by a group of settlers on Telegram called "Nazi Hunters" incited against the Jerusalemite journalist MANAR SHWEIKI on Thursday, sharing her personal information and claiming that she is a journalist working for Hamas.

According to field investigations by MADA researcher, the journalist MANAR KAMAL SHWEIKI, who works for "Al-Kufiyya TV" and presents a documentary program with "Al-Qastal" Network, found a post on a group called "Nazi Hunters" on Telegram mentioning her name, along with an image and residential address, and claiming that she is a journalist working for Hamas.

The image was taken from her personal account. The journalist consulted lawyers and they advised her not to go to the police because the posts involve several charges, including defamation, extortion, and incitement to murder, but the judiciary does not do justice to Palestinians in these cases, and the instigators may be supported by the government.

The page constantly shares ads referring to martyrs and prisoners saying "After our post, he was arrested" or "After our post, he was killed." In reference to journalists who were assaulted.

 

(Nov. 2^nd) Palestine TV reporter MOHAMMAD ABU HATAB and his family were killed in a bombing targeting his house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

 

(Nov. 2^nd) Journalist ISMAIL ABU HATAB was injured in the left leg while covering the targeting of Al-Ghafri Tower in Gaza Strip on Thursday Nov. 2^nd, which resulted in an intense laceration in his leg.

 

 

(Nov. 3^rd) The Israeli occupation police arrested the cameraman of the Turkish TV "TRT", HAMZA AL-NAAJI, from Wadi Al-Joz, in the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday afternoon, while covering the tense events after the occupation forces prevented worshipers from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque.

According to the investigations of the field researcher of MADA Center, the photojournalist HAMZA NAAJI, accompanied by the reporter of the same TV, FAHMI ISHTEWI, went to the town of "Wadi Al-Joz" in Jerusalem to cover the tense events after the occupation forces prevented worshipers from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Both journalists took up their positions to film the live broadcast of FAHMI’s intervention on air, during which a policeman went to HAMZA and asked him to go with him. The reporter turned the camera to film him being taken to the "Martyrs' Cemetery" in the Lion’s Gate, where he was interrogated in the field for about 7 minutes. The policeman forced HAMZA to go with them in a car to the police headquarters, and FAHMI later learned that it was the Neve Ya'qub police station next to the town of Beit Hanina, where HAMZA lives.

FAHMI later learned that HAMZA was targeted because he posted a photo on his Facebook page on October 7, the first day of the war, of an elderly woman detained by Hamas with the caption "Dreams and sleep of the afternoon”. The post was tracked and who posted it was traced.

HAMZA stayed in the police interrogation center for about six hours, where there was talk about postponing the court to the next day (Saturday evening) or even Sunday morning, as the occupation courts do not work on Saturday. However, the lawyer worked hard to reject this decision and was able to release HAMZA on the evening of the same day (Friday) on bail and house arrest for 5 days with the confiscation of his personal phone to watch him.

 

On Friday morning, the Israeli occupation forces detained journalists of Wafa News Agency, MOHAMMAD FATHI ABU BAKR, (50 years old), and JAAFAR SADAKA, (55 years old), at Ein Sinia military checkpoint, north of Ramallah, for about two and a half hours, accompanied by the Agency's driver, RAAFAT SAWALHA, who was driving the vehicle.

Both journalists were on their way from Ramallah to their place of work in Jenin, when the occupation forces stopped their vehicle at "Ein Sinia" military checkpoint at about 07:30AM in the morning and asked for identity cards and personal phones from the journalists and asked them to get out of the vehicle and lift the clothes from their stomachs, and then sat them on the ground.

Fifteen minutes later, a military jeep came and both journalists were admitted to the courtyard of the military tower in the place, handcuffed and blindfolded, where they sat on the ground of gravel and stones.

The handcuffed soldier asked them to open their mobile phones, without asking them any questions as they remained seated on a floor full of gravel and stones and allowed them to leave after about two and a half hours of detention.

 

(Nov. 3^rd) Israeli warplanes bombed the headquarters and offices of a number of media organizations in Al-Ghafri Tower in Gaza Strip, as the tower has a number of media institutions, namely: Agence France-Presse, Al-Jazeera TV, Al-Sharq TV, and the Palestinian Media Group Corporation, which provides services to many satellite channels.

 

(Nov. 3^rd) HAITHAM HARARA, a journalist in the government media office, was killed during the bombing of the entrance to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza by Israeli warplanes.

 

(Nov. 3^rd) WhatsApp banned the second number of the head of the government media office in Gaza Strip, SALAMEH MAAROUF.

 

(Nov. 5^th) The Israeli occupation forces arrested at dawn on Sunday three journalists after storming their homes in Birzeit, including AMIR ABU ARAM, MUSAB SAEED, and MOHAMMED QADDOUMI, and released journalists MUSAB and MOHAMMED after hours of detention at the "Atara" checkpoint, while keeping the journalist AMIR detained.

The Israeli occupation forces raided the house of AMIR ABU ARAM (32 years old), a journalist for Al-Irsal Network, at about 03:00AM on Sunday morning, and arrested him at about 06:00AM in the morning, at the same time as the arrest of fellow journalists MOHAMMAD QADDOUMI and MUSAB SAEED.

The soldiers asked AMIR to get dressed, informed him of the arrest, prevented him to say goodbye to his daughters and children, and refused to let his father and family bid him farewell and told them to close the doors and go inside. After handcuffing and blindfolding, soldiers took the journalist to military patrols. On Nov. 19^th, the journalist was issued a six-month administrative detention order.

The occupation soldiers stormed the house of the freelance journalist MOHAMMED AHMED HASSAN OBAID (33 years old) in the town of Birzeit at about 06:00AM in the morning in a barbaric and brutal manner, where they tried to take off the door before the journalist opened it himself, and three soldiers spread in the vicinity of the house and eight others broke into the house from the inside, and they were screaming and cursing while breaking the contents of the house, after fifteen minutes, they asked for the identity card of the journalist and then took him to the "Atara" camp.

In the "Atara" camp, the journalist was tied with plastic handcuffs with the other detainees, and the soldiers sat them on a dirt floor full of gravel and stones. It was noticeable that the soldiers had severely tightened the handcuffs on the hands of the detainees in a harmful way, as they tried to talk to the soldiers, but they did not respond, the journalist remained until 08:30AM in the morning, where the soldiers untied the cuffs and left the journalist at the "Atara" checkpoint and asked them to leave, and during their detention they only received threats that they could be re-arrested again.

On the same night, journalist MUSAB IBRAHIM SAEED, (33 years old), who works in a private production company he owns, was arrested after an Israeli army force stormed his house in Birzeit at about 05:00AM in the morning.

The soldiers handcuffed the journalist and arrested him after verifying his personal identity, where they blindfolded him, while he was walking, he was beaten and kicked from behind, and his feet were swollen inside the military jeep due to the large number of detainees, and the soldier deliberately tightened the handcuffs from time to time.

The soldiers took the journalist to the "Atara" checkpoint, and sat him on the ground in a sitting position on his knee, and the floor was full of gravel and stones, where after a period of sitting the person cannot stand because of the pain caused by sitting for a long time on the stones, and the occupation soldiers carried MUSAB and took him to the intelligence officer because of his inability to walk on his feet.

In a short interview that does not exceed a few minutes, the intelligence officer threatened MUSAB and told him, "We warned you the first, second and third time and the world is at war and things are unbearable," for allegedly practicing incitement that affects the area. Then the soldiers re-tied him and returned him to the military tower at the checkpoint for two hours, during which the detainees were beaten and kicked. He was released at about 08:00AM on Sunday morning.

 

(Nov. 5^th) Al-Mayadeen TV reporter HANA MAHAMID was subjected to an incitement campaign after an Israeli journalist at 10 Hebrew TV led her to the Israeli Post Office on Sunday morning and accused her of incitement against Israel, and that she was an accomplice in spreading lies, filmed her and broadcasted the video on his own Facebook account.

According to the follow-up of the field researcher of MADA Center, the reporter of "Al-Mayadeen" TV, journalist HANA MAHAMID received on Sunday evening a phone call from a person impersonating an employee in the Israel Post telling her that there was a postal parcel in the name of the journalist from the Ministry of Interior and it was difficult to deliver it to her because she resides in an Arab area, and told her that no one else can receive it and gave her an appointment at the post office in the area of "Kfar Saba" between 08:00AM and 10:00AM the next morning.

The journalist went the next day to the aforementioned post branch, and as soon as she approached the window to inquire about the alleged postal parcel, she was surrounded by five people, including four carrying cameras, and "heaped a huge amount of questions and accusations on her" in Hebrew, including accusing the channel she works for with "glorifying the massacre of the seventh of October and spreading lies, and that HANA is an accomplice in spreading lies and rumors and supporting terrorism, and that she puts them at risk by covering it.

The journalist managed to get out of the post office and towards her car as they continued to pursue and film her, and ask her questions, HANA called the police emergency number and told the family where she was.

Speaking to the Israeli police, HANA said she was threatened by someone she described and described her whereabouts. She hardly reached her home and then went to the police station to file a formal complaint that was registered against the person, identified as "HAIM ITGAR" and working for Israel's Channel 10.

HAIM later posted on his Facebook page parts of the filmed incident, which clearly show that he was chasing her, but told the story as if it were a coincidence rather than a premeditated lure, and that he asked her ordinary questions without threat.

After the publication of the incitement video on the page of the journalist "HAIM", the journalist received many messages with content full of bad insults and calls to remove her from her place of residence, death threats, wishes for cancer, and many other inciting phrases.

 

(Nov. 5^th) On Sunday evening, the Israeli Occupation forces arrested freelance journalist SUMAYA JAWABREH from Al-Fara'a camp, after summoning her and her husband, journalist TARIQ AL-SARKAJI, by the Occupation intelligence for interrogation at the occupation police headquarters in the settlement of "Ariel", south of Nablus, before she was arrested despite her health condition.

The journalist's father had received a call from an Israeli police officer, asking him that journalists SUMAYA and her husband TARIQ should be present at the Israeli police station in the settlement of "Ariel" immediately.

Both journalists arrived at the gate of the occupation police headquarters, and they were asked to wait outside, and they only brought SUMAYA to the station and TARIQ stayed outside, shortly after that (about fifteen minutes later) the officer contacted him and told him that the journalist had been transferred to the occupation police headquarters near the settlement of "Ma'ale Adumim" east of Jerusalem.

The journalist left TARIQ after he was informed of the arrest of his wife, journalist SUMAYA, and in the evening hours TARIQ received a call from an interrogator at the police station, and they told him to hire a lawyer, as the journalist refused to respond to them without the presence of a lawyer.

The journalist was able to communicate with her husband and inform him that she was detained, and TARIQ later learned through his communication with the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs that the occupation police had completed the investigation against her and that the reason for the arrest was incitement on social media.

On Thursday, Nov. 10^th, the occupation court decided to extend the detention of journalist SUMAYA until Sunday, and it was decided on Sunday evening, Nov. 12^th, to release journalist SUMAYA JAWABREH under a number of harsh conditions: a financial guarantee of 10,000 shekels, a third-party guarantee of 50,000 shekels, indefinite house detention, preventing her from using the Internet, keeping her under home supervision, along with her husband and her husband's mother, to ensure the enforcement of the previous conditions.

 

(Nov. 6^th) At dawn on Monday, the Israeli occupation forces raided two printing presses and a library in Hebron, broke their doors, seized their equipment, and informed the three owners of the decision to close the printing presses and the library by military order for an unknown period.

According to the follow-up of MADA field researcher, the Israeli occupation forces stormed at dawn on Monday, and at a short distance two printing presses and a library in the city of Hebron, and about 2:00AM, an army force reinforced by several military vehicles, accompanied by a truck equipped with a crane, stormed the printing press "Ansam" in the southern area of Hebron, belonging to the citizen YAHYA ABBAS ABU SNEINEH. The soldiers broke down the main doors of the printing house, and when its owner arrived, the soldiers detained him, tied his hands, and severely beat him. The soldiers seized 15 printing machines of various sizes and threw them into the truck to damage them. At approximately 3:00AM, and before the force withdrew, the main doors of the printing press were closed, pieces of iron were placed and welded to the doors, and the soldiers informed its owner that there was a military decision to close it until another notice, without giving him a written decision.

The printing press supports four families, while financial losses are estimated at 350,000 shekels for the seized printers.

The occupation forces also stormed the "Panorama" library of its owner, SAMER MUJAHID, with an army force reinforced by several military vehicles, accompanied by a truck equipped with a crane, the soldiers began to open the door of the library using special tools, while the soldiers prevented its owner from approaching the place, and began a search inside the library, and seized two printers, and three computers, and before the soldiers left, they welded the main door of the library, and informed its owner that there was a military decision to close without specifying the period or setting a written decision to do so.

At approximately 3:00AM, on the same day, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the printing press "Infinity" owned by the citizen NIDAL AL-QAWASMEH in the center of Hebron, after breaking the main door, searched the printing press and seized all the computers for printers and electronic design devices, which led to the complete cessation of work in the printing press, which employs about 40 employees, and before leaving the place, the main door was welded, and the owner was orally informed of the closure of the printing press by a military decision until further notice and without handing him an official letter.

 

(Nov. 6^th) Journalist MOHAMMED AL-JAJA, media advisor to the Press House Foundation, and several members of his family were killed in an Israeli raid on his house in Al-Nasr neighborhood.

 

(Nov. 6^th) The Israeli occupation forces arrested the reporter of Al-Qastal News Network, MOHAMMAD HALABIYA (ABU JAMOUS), from his home in the town of "Abu Dis" at dawn on Monday.

According to the testimony of HASHEM, the journalist's brother, a force of Israeli occupation soldiers surrounded the family home of Al-Qastal News Network reporter MOHAMMAD JAMAL HALABIYA (ABU JAMOUS) (32 years old) in the town of "Abu Dis" east of Jerusalem at about 3:15AM on Tuesday, and opened the main door leading to the family home with special equipment. The soldiers deployed inside the house and detained the journalist's brother, HASHIM HALABIYA, and informed him that he was being held until his brother MOHAMMAD turns himself in.

The soldiers went to the apartment behind the family house where the journalist lived, and he opened the door and turned himself in after confirming his identity and that he was the wanted person, handcuffed him, and took him to an unknown destination.

 

(Nov. 6^th) The Israeli occupation forces arrested J-Media cameraman ABDUL MOHSEN SHALALDEH after raiding his house in the town of Sa'ir in Hebron at dawn on Monday.

A foot force of Israeli soldiers surrounded the family home of journalist ABDEL MOHSEN TAYSEER SHALALDEH, 26 years old, in the town of "Sa'ir", a cameraman for J-Media at approximately  2:30AM on Monday, where the soldiers knocked on the main door leading to the house violently. As soon as the journalist’s brother opened the door, the soldiers attacked him and asked him about his brother, journalist ABDUL MOHSEN, who lives on the ground floor of the house.

The soldiers went down to the residence of the journalist, who woke up to the sound of soldiers knocking on the doors and left the house, where the soldiers immediately handcuffed him and took him with them to military jeeps after seizing his phone. Until now, the family does not know the whereabouts of the journalist.

 

(Nov. 7^th) Wafa journalist MOHAMMED ABU HASIRA and several members of his family were killed in an Israeli bombardment targeting their house in western Gaza, and journalist YAHYA ABU MANEA was killed in Israeli raids on Gaza City.

 

(Nov. 8^th) Israeli occupation forces arrested two journalists from Hebron at dawn on Tuesday after raiding their homes, and seizing some of their phones, and taking them to unknown destinations.

According to the journalist's wife's testimony to MADA researcher, Israeli occupation forces raided the house of Quds Press reporter AMER ABDEL HALIM ABU ARAFA (35 years old) in the western neighborhood of Hebron and broke down the main door of the house, where several soldiers entered the house and detained his wife in the children's room. The journalist was barbarically taken outside, handcuffed after seizing his personal phone, and taken to an unknown destination.

MOHAMMED YOUNIS AL-ATRASH, a 33-year-old journalist who works as a presenter for "Elm" Radio in Hebron, was arrested the same night after the occupation authorities stormed his house at about 04:00AM on Tuesday.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, the soldiers entered the journalist's wife into one of the rooms, and routinely searched the house, and before leaving, the journalist was arrested and three phones were confiscated from the house, two of them for the journalist, and he was transferred to an unknown destination.

According to the lawyer of the journalist "KHALED AL-ARAJ", the Israeli court, which was held in "Ofer" Camp on November 26, decided to continue the trial of journalist MOHAMMAD AL-ATRASH until the end of the trial procedures, despite the possibility of releasing him on bail, and the next session of the journalist AL-ATRASH is still not scheduled for.

(Nov. 9^th) Journalists OBADA TAHAINA and HAFEZ SABRA were injured on Thursday afternoon in Jenin while covering the Israeli occupation forces' incursion into the city and their attempt to escape from the military jeep that attempted to run them over, while journalist SHADI JARA'A was injured by bullet fragments while covering the same event.

According to the testimony of freelance journalist OBADA TAHAINA (22 years old) to MADA researcher, the journalist was present at about 3:00PM at the cinema roundabout inside Jenin to cover the incursion of the occupation forces into the city, and during the coverage, the occupation soldiers surprised them from behind, forcing the journalist OBADA to flee and during that he collided with one of the people and fell in front of the military jeep, which tried to run him over while lying on the ground in a state of fatigue lying on his back from the severity of the injury, and it also led to bruises in all over his body.

At the same time, HAFEZ MAHMOUD ABU SABRA, a 33-year-old reporter, was injured in his hand after falling to the ground while being chased by the occupation forces, and the injury resulted in severe bruises on the hand, and the army vehicle tried to run him over, but he was able to remove himself from the front of it.

SHADI JARARA'A, a cameraman for Al-Ghad TV, was injured by shrapnel in the foot while he was in the vicinity of Jenin Governmental Hospital and was treated in the emergency department of Jenin Governmental Hospital by Palestinian Red Crescent teams.

 

(Nov. 10^th) Al-Aqsa University cameraman AHMAD AL-KARA was killed after bombing the entrance to the town of Khuza'a, east of Khan Younis in Gaza Strip, on Friday morning.

 

(Nov. 10^th) Two journalists were threatened with death by the Israeli occupation authorities for covering the aggression against civilians in Gaza Strip.

The Hebrew website "Global” published a threat against journalist MUTHANA AL-NAJJAR from Gaza, who broadcast from the kibbutzim on October 7, the first day of the aggression on the Strip, saying: "Your time is also ticking, we are on our way to you and journalist HASSAN ISLAIH".

 

(Nov. 10^th) A group of journalists were directly targeted by the Israeli occupation forces with bombs and bullets to prevent them from covering the events in the vicinity of the "Indonesian" Hospital” on Friday, and among them were: MAHMOUD ABU SALAMA, ABOUD ABU SALAMA, and ABDULLAH OBAID.

 

(Nov. 13^th) The Israeli occupation forces detained the crew of "Palestine" TV at the military checkpoint at the southern entrance to Jericho city on Thursday morning for three hours and prevented them from covering the detention of Palestinian vehicles at the checkpoint.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, the crew of "Palestine" TV, consisting of (journalist OMAR AHMED ABU AWAD, Director of the Office, journalist MOHAMMAD JAWAD AL-ZOGHBI, journalist SAMER ASAAD ABU SULEIMAN, and TV reporter ELHAM FATHI AHDIB) went at about 10:00AM on Monday to the southern entrance to the city of Jericho to cover the ongoing detention of Palestinian vehicles at one of the military checkpoints established in the place. As soon as the crew arrived at the scene, and 250 meters away from where the soldiers were present, all the personnel put on press uniforms and installed cameras.

A few minutes later, a number of Israeli occupation soldiers attacked them with live bullets while shouting at them to stop working, seized their mobile phones, and detained them on the side of the road in the sun until 01:00PM, without stating any reason for this detention.

They then gave them back their phones and allowed them to leave after being prevented from covering.

 

 

(Nov. 13) Israeli newspaper: The security cabinet approved regulations allowing the closure of foreign and Arab media outlets.

 

(Nov. 13^th) Journalist AHMED FATIMA, who works at the Press House, was killed in an Israeli raid on Gaza Strip, and the Executive Director of Nama Radio, MUSA AL-BARSH, died of wounds he sustained earlier in targeting his house by Israeli warplanes in Jabalia, north of Gaza.

 

(Nov. 13^th) Al-Jazeera cameraman ISSAM MAWASI was slightly injured, and his broadcast vehicle was damaged by Zionist bombing against press crews in Gaza Strip.

 

(Nov. 12^th) The Israeli occupation authorities banned the Lebanese channel "Al-Mayadeen" and suspended its work in the Palestinian territories starting from November 12.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, the Director of Al-Mayadeen TV did not receive any information about the ban on Al-Mayadeen TV in the Palestinian territories except what was published in the press, and no decision from any party from the Israeli occupation corrected it. However, the channel was officially banned and there was a decision to seize its equipment.

The work of Al-Mayadeen crews in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and inside the Green Line has been effectively suspended since November 12^th, 2023.

(Nov. 17^th) The occupation police obstructed the work of the crew of the Turkish TV channel  "TRT" and prevented them from covering the attack on worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday afternoon.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, the reporter of the Turkish television  "TRT" MURAT CAN ÖZTÜRK and his colleague cameraman AHMET BAGIS went to the town of Wadi Joz in Jerusalem on Friday afternoon to cover Friday prayers in the city of Jerusalem.

The crew chose where they stood based on their previous experiences, as the occupying forces always target them with tear gas canisters. So on that day, they tried to stand about two meters behind the police. They were surrounded by more than 20 people, mostly from the Turkish press, as well as other journalists from Al Jazeera TV and others.

A few minutes before the prayer began, one of the soldiers started pushing and shouting at them to stay away from the place because "it belongs to the police, neither of them argued, and when they started moving from the place another soldier hit the camera with a canister filling bullets in the weapon, which led to a broken camera lens. The crew moved away from the scene and completed their work by covering the attacks on worshippers for another half hour with a broken lens.

 

(Nov. 17^th) A group of settlers assaulted Al Jazeera English cameraman JOSEPH HANDAL by spraying gas in his face and smashing his car as he passed the Container Checkpoint east of Bethlehem on Friday morning.

In his testimony to MADA Center, the cameraman of "Al Jazeera English" TV JOSEPH YOUSEF HANDAL (40 years old) said that at about 7:00AM on Friday he was heading from the city of Bethlehem to work in the city of Ramallah, and when he arrived at the "Container" Checkpoint east of the city of Bethlehem, one of the people stopped him while he was armed and wearing civilian clothes, and he initially thought he was one of the occupation soldiers, and as soon as he stopped his car, the settler attacked him by spraying pepper gas directly in the face and in a large amount that prevented him from seeing. Four settlers attacked him from the other side and damaged his vehicle.

 

(Nov. 17^th) The Israeli occupation forces arrested journalist MERVAT AL-AZZA after summoning her for interrogation on charges of incitement at the "Neve Yaakov" Center and remained in detention until she was released on Nov. 26^th in the third prisoner exchange deal.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, at about 10:00AM, on Friday, NBC reporter MERVAT MAHMOUD ABDEL RAHMAN AL-AZZEH, 44 years old, from Beit Hanina area in Jerusalem, received a summons request to meet the Israeli occupation police at their center in "Neve Yaakov" area in Jerusalem, and as soon as she went there, she was arrested for interrogation regarding materials she published on her Facebook account that were considered inciting, and she was transferred to the "Talmond" Prison, in Israel. On Monday, Nov. 20^th, 2023, the detention of journalist AL-AZZA was extended for the first time for three days, and on (Nov. 23^rd) her detention was extended for the second time along with the filing of an indictment against her, and the journalist was released on Nov. 26^th during the third prisoner exchange deal.

 

(Nov. 17^th) Israeli police arrested freelance journalist ABD AL-AFWA AL-ZUGHAYER from the Lions Gate area in the Old City of Jerusalem while covering the attack on Jerusalemites and transferred him to al-Muskubīya (Russian Compound) interrogation center, and his detention was extended for four days, and the journalist was released on Tuesday Nov. 21^st on bail, and on the condition of house arrest for a week.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, at approximately 6:00PM, on Friday, the occupation police arrested the freelance journalist ABDEL AFNA BASSAM AYESH (AL-ZUGHAIR) (30 years old) while he was in the Old City of Jerusalem to cover the assault of police officers on citizens and transferred him to the "Russian Compound" interrogation center, where the officers seized his mobile phone and interrogated him about his journalistic work, the events he covers and the parties he works for, and charged him with serving terrorist parties.

The journalist’s detention was extended on Saturday evening by the Israeli court via the screen without bringing him to the courtroom until Tuesday, Nov. 21^st, in order to complete the interrogation, although he was not interrogated again.

In Tuesday’s hearing, the military prosecutor demanded an extension of his detention for an additional period, but the judge issued a decision to release the journalist on judicial and personal bail, and on the condition of house arrest for a week.

 

(Nov. 18^th) Six journalists were killed in one day as a result of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza Strip: Al-Aqsa TV journalist AMR SALAH ABU HAYYA, Al-Quds TV journalist SARI MANSOUR, and his colleague journalist HASSOUNA SELIM, journalist ABDEL HALIM AWAD, journalist MUSTAFA AL-SAWAF and his son, the cameraman of the Turkish Anadolu Agency MONTASER AL-SAWAF.

 

(Nov. 19^th) Journalist BILAL JADALLAH, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Press House, was killed in an Israeli bombardment of Gaza Strip.

 

(Nov. 19^th) Israeli occupation forces arrested journalist TARIQ AL-SHARIF, a presenter at Raya FM, after storming his house in Ramallah at dawn on Sunday.

According to the testimony of SUHA TAMIM, the journalist's wife, to MADA researcher, at approximately 03:40AM on Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces raided the residential building where AL-SHARIF's house was located, where they were asking about the owner of TARIQ'S KIA.

The occupation forces continued to storm the building and its homes, going up the floors, where TARIQ lives on the fourth floor. When they reached the third floor, where the journalist's house was located, TARIQ woke up, there was a loud noise, and he started knocking on the door of the house violently and strongly, as TARIQ opened the door for the soldiers.

The Israeli occupation soldiers searched the house without vandalism, opened the lockers and drawers, and looked for electronic devices such as phones or computers, including TARIQ's laptop that he works on which was on the table, as well as TARIQ's phones, and asked him to open the devices for them (they asked for the password), where the occupation army then told TARIQ's wife that he was under arrest.

They filmed TARIQ at home and asked for his wife's ID number, and photographed his wife with his eight-month-old baby, while TARIQ dressed, in fifteen minutes, and he was arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

On Sunday, Nov. 26^th, the Israeli court held a court session in Ofer Military Prison, extending AL-SHARIF's detention for 4 days to complete the investigation.

 

(Nov. 19^th) The Israeli occupation forces arrested freelance journalist FATHI EDKIDEK at dawn on Sunday after storming his house in Hebron, seized his mobile phone, and took him to an unknown destination.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, the Israeli occupation forces raided at approximately 02:00AM, on Sunday, the vicinity of the house of freelance journalist FATHI BASSEM EDKIDEK (32 years old) in the western neighborhood of Hebron.

As soon as the journalist opened the main door of the house, some soldiers rushed to the internal hall and asked him to bring his personal identity card and mobile phone, while several other soldiers spread inside the house and conducted a quick search, and at about 2:20, the soldiers withdrew from the house after the journalist was arrested and his phone was seized, without the family knowing where he was.

 

(Nov. 20^th) Three female journalists were killed in one day: AMAL ZUHD, who was killed with her family as a result of a bombing on her home in Gaza City, and both journalists ALAA AL-HASANAT and AYAT AL-KHADDOUR in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza on Monday evening.

 

(Nov. 21^st) The Israeli occupation forces arrested journalist MOAMEN SAMREEN from his home in Burqa town in Ramallah, took him to a house in the town and interrogated him about his journalistic work for three hours before he was released.

According to the journalist's testimony to MADA researcher, the Israeli occupation forces raided the house of journalist MOAMEN HUDHAIFA SAMREEN (21 years old) in the town of Burqa in Ramallah at about 05:30AM in the morning on Tuesday, where the soldiers carried out a wide search operation inside the house.

 

After the soldiers finished the search, they blindfolded the journalist and handcuffed him, and he was taken to another house in the village where several detainees from the village were present, and there they were all assaulted, and he was beaten on his stomach and limbs, although he told them since his arrest that he had been injured since June 2023 and the bullet was still in his head. The soldiers took him to another house in the village that the occupation army used as a military barracks and an interrogation center.

The house was full of soldiers and detainees, and the interrogation with the journalist began at 11:30PM and lasted for about 3 hours, the investigator asked the journalist for his phone and accounts on Facebook and Instagram and questioned him about his work. The investigation included threatening him with arrest and arresting his mother and sisters and then he was released.

 

(Nov. 22^nd) Photojournalist ANAS JAMAL AL-SHARIF in Gaza received death threats from the Israeli occupation officers to prevent him from covering to conceal the crimes of the occupation against civilians in Gaza Strip.

 

(Nov. 22^nd) The Israeli occupation soldiers held photojournalist SARI JARADAT at the entrance to Beit Einun, east of Hebron, for about 20 minutes and searched his phone and camera bag on Wednesday afternoon.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, the Israeli occupation forces detained at approximately 3:00PM on Wednesday the cameraman of "Al-Mayadeen" TV and "Quds News Network" SARI ABDEL GHAFFAR JARADAT (34 years old) while he was passing through the military checkpoint at the entrance to "Beit Einun" road, east of Hebron.

The soldiers asked the journalist to show his ID card, then searched his camera bag, while one of them asked him for his personal phone and began to check the photos inside, asking him questions about some of the photos on the phone. About 20 minutes later, the soldier returned the journalist's ID card and phone and allowed him to leave.

 

(Nov. 22^nd) ASSEM AL-BARSH, a presenter at the Palestinian “Al-Rai News Agency” and a journalist in the Public Relations and Media Department of the Ministry of Local Government, and MOHAMMAD NABIL AL-ZAQ, a journalist for Quds Al-Youm, were killed in a bombing in the Shujaiya area of Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

 

(Nov. 23^rd) Reuters cameraman FADI SHANA and journalist AMR TABASH were injured while covering the bombing of AL-AWITI's house in Sheikh Nasser after a wall collapsed on them.

 

(Nov. 23^rd) The photojournalist MOHAMMED MU'IN AYYASH was killed along with a number of his family members as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of his house in Nuseirat in central Gaza Strip.

(Nov. 24^th) The Israeli occupation forces detained three journalists for about six hours on Friday evening at a military checkpoint south of Hebron and prevented them from reaching the town of "Yatta" to interview one of the children released as part of the exchange deal.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, both journalists, MUSAB SHAWAR, a reporter for Al-Hadath newspaper, and MAHMOUD SULEIMAN AL-TAMIZI, a reporter for Palestine Post, arrived at Al-Fahs Road junction, south of Hebron, at about 5:00PM on Friday, heading to the town of Yatta to interview one of the children who were intended to be released in the exchange deal.

Upon their arrival, both journalists stopped to wait for their colleague, “Al-Raba’a” Radio reporter, TAHA DAOUD ABU HUSSEIN, and in the meantime arrived a foot force of the occupation army consisting of four soldiers, who were running towards the vehicle of the journalists while pointing guns at them, and asked the journalists to hand them identity cards and mobile phones, and one of the soldiers conducted the security check via radio.

Both journalists told the soldiers that they were waiting for their journalist colleague and that they were heading to their work, and after about 20 minutes, the soldiers informed them that they would wait for the third journalist to verify what they said. When the journalist "ABU HUSSEIN" arrived, the soldiers put the journalists' cameras inside the vehicle, locked it, seized the keys, and took the three journalists to a yard next to the military tower located at a distance of 100 meters on the road where the three journalists were stopped, and there the three journalists were handcuffed, and cloth blindfolds were placed on their eyes. and they were forced to sit on the floor. 

The three journalists continued to be detained until 11:00PM, without investigation, during which time the soldiers took the journalist TAHA ABU HUSSEIN and transported him in the military jeep for 20 minutes, and then returned him to the first place of detention next to the tower with his colleagues, and then they were released, and the soldiers returned their mobile phones, press cards and vehicle keys.

 

(Nov. 24^th) The Israeli occupation forces attacked press crews in front of Ofer detention center on Friday afternoon while they were covering the release of the first batch of prisoners released under the prisoners’ exchange deal, injuring the German television cameraman with a rubber bullet in his left thigh.

A group of journalists and press crews went to Ofer detention center in Ramallah to cover the release of the first batch of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons under a prisoner exchange deal with the occupation forces. While waiting, the Israeli occupation forces removed journalists and families from the prison and fired tear gas canisters and metal bullets at them, where the German TV cameraman TARIQ YOUSEF KAYAL (58 years old) was targeted with a rubber bullet in his left thigh. 

TARIQ received the field treatment and was told that he needed to go to the hospital, especially since the bullet destroyed the pants and his leg in the thigh area, but TARIQ had to endure the pain and remained at work despite feeling pain and heaviness in movement, and after completing the filming of the release of prisoners and preparing the required story, he went at 11:00PM to the hospital (Palestine Medical Complex) and there he was photographed, and given painkiller injections, antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs.

At about 04:00PM, the occupation soldiers targeted the journalists present on the rooftop of the building overlooking the prison, namely: (RAMI SAMARA, JIHAD BARAKAT, JAFFA ISTETIEH from Russia Today crew, the cameraman of the Jordanian Kingdom Channel SALEH HAMAD, and the reporter of Al-Arabi FADI AL-ASSA) with gas canisters, which led to their suffocation. Furthermore, press crews were present on the hill overlooking Ofer, and among them was the crew of (4D) including its cameraman ATTA AWAD, GUEVARA AL-BUDAIRI "Al-Jazeera reporter, journalist AZIZA NOFAL, and foreign journalists who were prevented from covering.

 

(Nov. 25^th) The Israeli police assaulted the reporter of "Al-Sharq" TV on Saturday evening, and obstructed the work of journalists in the town of "Silwan", south of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and prevented them from covering the release of the prisoner ISRAA JAABIS. 

According to the journalist YASMINE ASAAD, the reporter of Al-Sharq TV, stated to MADA field researcher, that the journalists went to the house of the liberated prisoner ISRAA JAABIS, at about 12:00PM on Saturday evening, to cover her release, and remained waiting until 12:00 midnight.

At 12:00AM, the journalists moved to the journalist's home in Jabal al-Mukaber. The journalists parked their cars in a yard down the mountain and carried their equipment and cameras up the stairs. However, the Israeli police raided the cars at about 02:00AM in the middle of the night on Saturday to prevent the entry and exit of people and journalists to and from the house.

The journalist YASMINE was in a live broadcast when a female soldier went to her and pushed her until she reached the stairs that led to a rugged mountain slope. The journalist told her in English and Hebrew that she had undergone surgery on her back and that she was suffering from pain in it, but the soldier who was carrying the weapon on her chest from the front and holding the stick in her hand, continued to push the journalist hitting her with the weapon on her back. There were the journalist YASMINE ASAAD, a reporter for Al-Sharq TV, and the cameraman KHALIL KHADER, in addition to journalist CHRISTINE RINAWI, Al-Arabi TV reporter, the cameraman ALI DAWANI, the journalist FAHMI ISHTEWI, the Turkish TV reporter TRT and cameraman MEHMET ASHU who works as a cameraman with the Turkish TV TRT.

Meanwhile, KHALIL KHADER, a cameraman for al-Sharq TV, stayed at home and one of the soldiers tried to pull out the wire of the transmitter, cut it, and continued to push him out.

 

(Nov. 26^th) The occupation police obstructed the work of journalists and prevented them from covering the release of prisoners in the town of "Silwan", south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, on Saturday evening.

The journalists entered the neighborhood from the main street and when they reached the vicinity of the house, the occupation forces prevented them from entering, and when they wanted to return, the police blocked the entrance to the main street and thus got stuck in the middle.

 

At around 12:00AM, YASMINE, al-Sharq TV reporter,  went to one of the soldiers at the entrance to the house to ask when they were allowed to enter, but he refused to answer and ordered her to leave. When she returned to the car along with a group of journalists' cars that stopped in a parking space in the area, the Israeli occupation forces directed lights on them to force them to return to the cars and move from the place. The journalists waited in cars until the occupation forces left and were able to begin their work.

Among the journalists were (journalist YASMINE ASAAD, the reporter of Al-Sharq TV, cameraman KHALIL KHADER, in addition to journalist CHRISTINE RINAWI, the reporter of Al-Araby TV, and cameraman ALI DAWANI, journalist FAHMI ISHTEWI, the reporter of Turkish TV TRT, and cameraman MOHAMMAD ASHO, the cameraman of the Turkish TV TRT).

 

(Nov. 26^th) Sky News Arabia cameraman RAED AL-HELOU was wounded by a bullet near Ofer detention center in Beitunia on Sunday evening, during the Israeli occupation's targeting of the press crews who were present to cover the release of the third batch of prisoners freed in the exchange deal.

According to the investigations of MADA field researcher, the press crews, including the crew of "Al-Jazeera", the crew of "Roya TV", the crew of the Turkish TV TRT, and "Sky News Arabia",  had gathered on a  high hill overlooking Ofer prison to cover the release of prisoners on Sunday evening, and at about 07:50PM, the occupation forces fired tear gas canisters intensively at the press crews, forcing them to move away from the cameras in order to avoid the smell of thick gas.

When the cameraman of "Sky News Arabia" RAED JIHAD AL-HELOU (49 years old) returned to bring his camera from the street, his body was protected by one of the vehicles, and upon arrival, he was injured with the palm of the right hand and did not realize the type of injury at the time, but two beams of laser directed at him, to be injured with his right hand as the vehicle was hit by a rubber bullet.

The cameraman fell to the ground as the journalists rushed to take him for treatment, but the Israeli occupation forces continued to fire tear gas canisters and rubber bullets, shouting at the army that they were journalists, but the army continued to firebomb and shout at them to leave.

 

The ambulance managed to arrive and the cameraman was taken to the hospital (Jaffa Hospital – Abu Rayya), where an X-ray of RAED's hand (the place of injury in the right hand) was taken, where it was found that he had two fractures in the hand, one in the palm joint and the other in the same palm, and wounds in the fingers of his hand, which prompted doctors to put a bandage on it (plaster).

 

(Nov. 27^th) The Israeli Minister of Communications announced a preliminary agreement with the American billionaire ELON MUSK, according to which the satellite Internet will not be operated in Gaza without Israeli approval.

 

(Nov. 29^th) The Israeli occupation forces detained and beat journalist HAFEZ TALAHMEH on Wednesday evening at a flying checkpoint set up by soldiers west of Hebron.

According to the investigations of MADA researcher, at approximately 8:30PM, on Wednesday, the occupation soldiers stopped the vehicle of the presenter of the programs at Alam Radio, HAFEZ ISMAIL ODEH TALAHMEH (35 years old) while he was returning from work at a flying checkpoint set up by the soldiers in the town of Dhahriya, west of Hebron, the soldiers asked him to get out of the vehicle and show his ID card. The soldiers began to search the vehicle thoroughly, and then the soldiers assaulted him by kicking for several minutes. After that, another soldier came and returned his ID card to him and asked him to leave the place. 

 

 

 

 

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