Ramallah-5^th August 2024. During the past month, July, Palestine witnessed a wide wave of serious assaults against journalists and media freedoms, the most serious of which was the murders of journalists, which have been continuing since last October despite all demands directed to international organizations to stop them.

While the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) documented during the month of June a total of sixty-two (62) assaults against media freedoms, most of which were committed by the occupation forces, MADA documented a total of one hundred-three (103) assaults during the month of July, one hundred-two (102) of which were committed by the Israeli occupation. The violations were different in terms of their nature and the method used to commit them, which aimed to cover up the occupation’s crimes against citizens and journalists, the pace of which has increased and multiplied since the beginning of the war on Gaza Strip.

The assaults against media freedoms during the month of July were distributed across the West Bank, occupied Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. The one hundred-three (103) assaults documented in July by MADA are broken down as one hundred-two (102) committed by the occupation authorities and forces, seventy (70) thereof took place in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and thirty-two (32) in Gaza Strip, while one (1) violation was committed by Twitter, represented in deleting the account of a journalist for three (3) days and returning it after deleting the tweet, while the Palestinian authorities did not commit any violation either in the West Bank or in Gaza Strip.

 

Israeli Violations:

The month of July witnessed a significant increase in the number of Israeli violations compared to the violations committed during the month of June, as they account for 99% of the total documented violations. MADA Center documented one hundred-two (102) Israeli violations committed in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, accounting for 69% of all Israeli assaults, compared to thirty-two (32) violations documented in Gaza Strip, accounting for 31% thereof.

These one hundred-two (102) violations are compared to sixty-one (61) Israeli violations documented during the month of June; in other words, Israeli violations increased during the month of July by 67%.

With the increase in the number of violations, the month of July witnessed serious violations in terms of gravity, as the occupation forces killed fifteen (15) journalists and the increase in journalist killings comes by 69% compared to the last month, June, which witnessed the killing of four (4) journalists.

Media coverage ban and coverage intended targeting followed the killing of journalists by the number and seriousness of violations, as MADA Center documented a total of forty-three (43) assaults, representing 42% of all Israeli violations.

Direct physical assaults constituted 14% of all documented violations, broken down as seven (7) assaults in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and seven (7) assaults in Gaza Strip, although some of them affected media crews that include more than one journalist.

During July, MADA also documented the bombing of the houses of eight (8) journalists and media professionals in Gaza Strip, as a result of the continuation of the war on Gaza Strip and consequently the continued bombardment of rockets and drones that target citizens, in general, including journalists, in their houses.

The occupation forces and authorities also arrested three (3) journalists, including a journalist and a writer, in the city of Hebron, and all of them were arrested after raiding their houses and sometimes being searched and vandalized. Furthermore, MADA documented ten (10) cases of detention of journalists, some of which lasted for long hours, and in harsh conditions where the detained journalists were beaten and abused.

In addition to the abovementioned, on 9^th July, the Israeli Government postponed the trial of photojournalist SAEED ROKEN from Jerusalem until the 4^th of August, despite his arrest since last March. On 21^st July, the Israeli Government approved the extension of the closure of Al-Jazeera Office in Jerusalem and banned its work in Israel for another forty-five (45) days for the third time in a row.

On 24^th July, the occupation authorities sentenced the imprisoned journalist AYMAN RABAYA to sixteen (16) months in prison on charges of "incitement" against the background of his publications”, and he has been detained since 5^th Dec. 2023.

In the same context, the Israeli occupation forces released on Tuesday, 9^th July, the wounded journalist MOATH AMARNA after the end of his administrative detention, where he was transferred to the hospital for medical examination due to his difficult health condition.

 

 

Journalists martyred during the month of July

#	Journalist Name	Date of martyrdom	Workplace
1-	MOHAMMED YOUSEF ALSAKANI	4th July 2024	Al-Quds TV
2-	AHMED SOKAR	5th July 2024	Deepshot Company
3-	SAADI MADOUKH	5th July 2024	Deepshot Company
4-	AMJAD JAHJOUH	6th July 2024	Palestine Media Agency
5-	WAFA ABU DABAN	6th July 2024	Islamic University Radio
6-	RIZIQ ABU SHAKIAN	6th July 2024	Freelance Journalist
7-	SALAMAH JOMA ALHASHASH	8th July 2024	Freelance Journalist
8-	MOHAMMED MONHEL ABUARMANAH	13th July 2024	Media Representative of Al-Kuwaiti Hospital
9-	MOHAMMED MESHMESH	16th July 2024	Sawt Al-Aqsa
10-	MOHAMMED ABU JASSER	20th July 2024	Al-Risala Newspaper
11-	MOTASEM GHORAB	20th July 2024	Public Relations of Islamic University
12-	HAIDAR ALMASDAR	21st July 2024	Journalist and Political Analyst
13-	MOHAMMED ABU DUQQA	29th July 2024	Freelance Journalist
14-	ISMAIL ALGHOUL	31st July 2024	Al-Jazeera TV
15-	RAMI ALRIFI	31st July 2024	National News Agency

 

Details of Violations:

(2^nd July) The Israeli warplanes targeted the house of journalist TARIQ AL-KURD in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, killing his only son.

According to journalist TARIQ MOHAMMED AL-KURD (42 years old), who works in the Programs and Personnel Affairs Departments of Al-Aqsa TV, at approximately 11:50PM on Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces targeted his house in Beit Lahia with two missiles from an F16 aircraft while he was with the family at home, killing his only eldest son (13 years old) and destroying large parts of the house.

The journalist, AL-KURD, miraculously escaped death as shrapnel and stones fell heavily during the bombing, and currently, there is nowhere to shelter him and his wife.

 

(2^nd July) On Tuesday evening, Israeli warplanes bombed Al-Ghafri Printing Press in Al-Melsh building in the middle of "Al-Tuffah" neighborhood, east of Gaza City, destroying the printing Press and damaging some printing equipment and computers.

According to eyewitnesses, the shelling affected the Printing Press "Al-Ghafri", which worked on printing many books and educational and media supplies, as well as a library selling publications and books, which led to the setting fire to large parts of it and some floors of the building and damage to printing equipment and computers after the fire reached them as a result of the bombing, as well as the burning of books, publications and means in the place, in addition to the destruction of the place completely.

 

(4^th July) Platform X suspended the account of journalist BASSEL MOHAMMED KHALAF, (38 years old), because of a tweet that he shared of a press release on Thursday, despite the fact that it did not include any terminology that the publishing laws on the platform.

According to the reporter of Al-Arabi TV, the journalist published a press release in a tweet, "Paramedics succeed in evacuating a wounded person from the Tel Al-Sultan area after 22 days of his injury”.

The tweet did not include any violation of the Platform's basic standards, as it was devoid of words that violate the Platform's standards, such as the word "martyr" or any word that indicates Palestinian organizations and the like.

The journalist learned of the suspension of the account through a notification he received on the Platform that considered this tweet a violation of the publishing laws on X Platform. The Platform reactivated the account three days later after the tweet was deleted.

 

(4^th July) Al-Quds TV journalist MOHAMMED AL-SAKANI was killed during a bombing targeting a group of citizens in Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, and journalist MOHAMMED AL-KUWAIFI was injured in a bombing of his apartment in Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City on Thursday evening, killing his wife and a number of his children and destroying the entire house.

According to the testimony of journalist MOHAMMED AWADIYA, his colleague MOHAMMED YOUSEF ALSAKANI (31 years old) who works in Al-Quds TV Broadcast Section, was with a group of citizens shortly after the end of press coverage and filming some scenes of Israeli aggression, and before heading home, a reconnaissance plane fired one missile, which led to his direct injury with shrapnel in different parts of his body and his death on the spot, where he was transferred to the Baptist Hospital in the city.

According to journalist MOHAMMED AHMED AL-KUWAIFI, (38 years old), who works in the News Editing Department of the Shehab News Agency, Israeli F16 missiles targeted his apartment in the Al-Mashahra area of the "Al-Tuffah" neighborhood, east of Gaza City, at about 10:00PM on Thursday.

The journalist was injured by shrapnel from the missile in the right foot, right and left hands, and head, where he was transferred to the Baptist Hospital for the necessary treatment, and he underwent surgery to extract shrapnel from his body, and his wife and three of his children were martyred, while his child ZEINA, who was injured with varying injuries, survived, while the apartment was completely destroyed.

 

(4^th July) The occupation soldiers detained freelance journalist ABDUL MOHSEN SHALALDEH as he passed through a flying checkpoint returning from Ramallah to his hometown in Hebron on Thursday afternoon, beat him, abused him, and threatened him with arrest if he continued working as a journalist.

According to the investigations of the field researcher of MADA Center, at about 2:00PM on Thursday, freelance journalist ABDUL MOHSEN SHALALDEH was returning from the city of Ramallah to his home in the town of "Sa'ir", and upon the arrival of the public vehicle in which he was traveling in to "Al-Faridis" area,  east of the city of "Bethlehem",  a number of soldiers stopped them at a flying military checkpoint, and after the soldier asked the passengers to show their IDs, he asked the journalist SHALALDEH to get out of the vehicle, asked him for his name and his personal phone, handcuffed his hands from the back and blindfolded him with a cloth, and the soldiers took him to the location of the military vehicles. 

The journalist SHALALDEH remained sitting on the ground for about an hour, and then they sat him on the ground of the military jeep until they brought him to an army camp in the "Al-Faridis" area, 200 meters away from the checkpoint. The soldiers took him down from inside the military jeep violently, and sat him on his knees, in that while, one of the soldiers kicked him with his foot on the head and chest several times, and one of the soldiers attacked him and slapped him several times on his back. The soldiers were cursing the journalist SHALALDEH with obscene and profanity. The assault on the journalist lasted for about half an hour intermittently.

The journalist was transferred to the Gush Etzion Camp south of Bethlehem, where he sat on a chair in an office while he was handcuffed and blindfolded for four hours continuously in the same place. He then entered a room with an investigator from the Israeli intelligence (Shin Bet), where the blindfold and plastic handcuffs were removed and he was interrogated about the nature of his current work currently, and he was threatened with arrest if he returned to journalism again claiming that any medium he would work with will be affiliated with Hamas. 

At approximately 10:00PM, the soldiers transferred SHALALDEH to the DCL Gate in the aforementioned settlement and released him there after handing him over his ID and phone, and then he was transferred by his brother to Al-Ahli Hospital, where X-rays were done on him and found bruises and a wound in his left elbow, and all over his body. He was discharged from the hospital late at night.

 

(5^th July) The  Israeli occupation forces obstructed the work of a group of journalists and media crews by firing live bullets and tear gas canisters at them and preventing them from covering the siege of a house in the "Horsh Al-Sa'ada" area of Jenin on Friday morning.

The reporter of the "Quds News" Network,  journalist MOHAMMED SAMIR ABED (28 years old), told MADA researcher that at 8:00AM on Friday, the journalists learned that Israeli special forces besieged a house in the "Horsh Al-Sa'ada" area  in the city of Jenin, so the press crews went to cover at the place, as more than fifteen (15) journalists arrived, including: (Agence France-Presse cameraman JAAFAR ZAHID SHTAYYEH (56 years old), freelance journalist OBADA MOHAMMED TAHAINA (23 years old), Roya TV reporter  HAFEZ MAHMOUD SABRA (34 years old), cameraman MAHMOUD FAWZI ISMAIL (39 years old),  freelance journalist JARRAH WALID KHALAF (24 years old), freelance journalist MOHAMMED ALI ATEEQ (31 years old), European Agency cameraman ALAA BADARNEH (51 years old),  Xinhua cameraman NIDAL SHAFIQ SHTAYYEH (56 years old), Al-Quds photojournalist ALI SADIQ SAMOUDI (57 years old), Awda TV reporter ANAS FAYEZ HOSHIA (38 years old), Wafa reporter MAHMOUD RASHID MANSOUR (32 years old), Al-Araby TV reporter AMEED ZAYED SHEHADEH (35 years old), the crew  of "Al-Ghad" TV, reporter KHALED BDEIR, cameraman SHADI JARARA, freelance journalist AMR MANASRAH (24 years old).

At 10:55AM, while the journalists were on Haifa Street,  west of the city, several military vehicles approached from the direction of the city towards the street, firing several shots in the vicinity where they were located, followed by the firing of tear gas canisters to obstruct their journalistic work and prevent them from covering. A few minutes later, during the passage of military vehicles, they tried to run over a number of journalists after they veered their direction towards them. The journalists moved away and tried to position themselves at a point near the besieged house, but occupation soldiers pushed them back away from the area and prevented them from completing their work.

 

(5^th July) SAADI MADOUKH, Director of Deepshot Media Production Company, was killed when his house in Gaza City was bombed on Friday evening, where journalist AHMED SUKKAR, who works for the same company, was with him.

According to the testimony of the uncle of a journalist ADEL SUKKAR to a MADA researcher, journalists AHMED SUKKAR, 26 years old, and SAADI MADOUKH, 27 years old, went missing on a filming assignment to report on the conditions of displaced people east of Gaza City, where they arrived at the house in the evening hours. At around 8:30 PM on Friday, an Israeli warplane suddenly fired a missile at the home of journalist SAADI, killing him and his colleague instantly, and their bodies were transferred by ambulance to the Baptist Hospital. The shelling also completely destroyed the apartment and press equipment in the journalists’ possession.

 

(6^th July) The occupation police detained the freelance journalist ABDUL RAHMAN AL-ALAMI after he was arrested from inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Saturday afternoon and interrogated him at the "Al-Qishla" Interrogation Center on charges of breaching public security. He was released at about 07:00PM on the same day.

According to the investigations of the researcher of MADA,  the occupation police went at about 12:00PM on Saturday to arrest the freelance journalist ABDUL RAHMAN AL-ALAMI (25 years old) while he was inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the calm of the general situation and the absence of any frictions except for the tightening of military measures in the Old City of Jerusalem, and the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, where the journalist was arrested without any reason.

Police officers took the journalist to the "Al-Qishla" Interrogation Center on charges of disturbing public security, where he was verbally assaulted, and he was released at about 07:00PM on the same day after confiscating his mobile phone.

 

(6^th July) Three journalists were killed in the bombing of a residential apartment belonging to journalist Rizq Abu Shakian in Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday morning, where his colleagues Amjad Jahjouh and his wife, journalist Wafaa Abu Dabaan, were displaced.

According to the testimony of HADEEL ABU DABAAN to the researcher of MADA Center, AMJAD JAHJOUH, a journalist with Palestine Media Agency, his wife, a producer and presenter at the Islamic University Radio, WAFA ABU DABAAN, and the journalist RIZQ ABU SHAKIAN were martyred in a bombing that targeted his apartment in Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip at about 6:30AM on Saturday, where an F16 warplane fired a missile at the apartment in which they were located, killing them, and their bodies were extracted shortly after and transferred to Al-Aqsa Martys Hospital.

 

(8^th July) The freelance journalist and activist SALAMA JUMA AL-HASHASH (27 years old) was killed on Monday afternoon during the bombing of his house in the Tel al-Sultan area, west of Rafah.

According to the testimony of ALI AL-HASHASH, the journalist's brother, to MADA researcher, his brother was on a press mission near his home in the "Tel Al-Sultan" area, and when he heard about the retreat of Israeli tanks from west of Rafah, he went to his house to check on him, as he had been displaced from the house with his family two months ago, when Israeli F16 warplanes bombed the house west of Rafah, killing him immediately.

 

(9^th July) The Israeli occupation forces obstructed the work of journalists and media crews in Aqbat Jabr Refugee Camp in Jericho on Tuesday by firing tear gas canisters at them and preventing them from covering the incursion into the Camp.

According to Palestine TV reporter ELHAM HUDAIB, on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by several military vehicles, stormed the center of Jericho and positioned themselves in Aqbat Jabr Palestinian Refugee Camp.

 A number of journalists went to the scene to cover the raid, including: Palestine TV reporter ELHAM HUDAIB, TV cameraman MURAD ASFOUR, Reuters cameraman ADEL ABU NIMA, and Wafa News Agency reporter SULEIMAN ABU SROUR. While the forces were storming an exchange shop, occupation soldiers prevented journalists from reaching the site and asked them to stay away from the place. In the meantime, a number of citizens began to gather while the soldiers deployed and fired stun grenades towards citizens and journalists near the site, which led to suffocation, and thus leaving the place.

 

(9^th July) On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces detained a number of journalists at the "Younes" roundabout in Tulkarm, obstructing their work and firing tear gas canisters and bullets at them to prevent them from covering during the military operation launched on the city and the "Nour Shams" camp.

According to investigations by MADA Center researcher, there were a number of journalists: Quds Network reporter HAMZA MAHMOUD HAMDAN (23 years old), Al-Jazeera reporter  LAITH JAAR (27 years old), Qudsfeed Network reporter NAGHAM BILAL AL-ZAIT (24 years old), and WAJD AL-ASHQAR, reporter of "Al-Salam" TV  (37 years old), freelance journalist MOHAMMED YOUNIS (37 years old),  reporter of "Khabar"  Network  SAMI AL-LDAWI (44 years old), at approximately 1:30AM, on Tuesday, 9^th July, near Shweikeh roundabout,  where the Israeli occupation forces stopped and searched a vehicle. The soldiers approached the journalists and asked for their identity cards and detained them for about fifteen (15) minutes, until they returned their IDs and press cards, and asked them to change the area and go to another area under the pretext that it was a military zone.

The journalists went to the area of "Younes" roundabout, during which the soldiers pushed military reinforcements and surrounded the journalists, by directing laser beams at them, while one of the soldiers from the occupation army threw a gas canister at them at about 1:50PM, and the soldiers fired shots in the air to intimidate journalists and prevent them from press coverage.

 

(13^th July) Journalist MOHAMMED ABU ARMANA was killed by shrapnel from Israeli warplanes, which hit him in the head and chest, and three other journalists were injured by shrapnel from rockets in various parts of their bodies while covering the massacre of "Al-Mawasi" in Khan Younis on Saturday.

According to the media officer at Kuwait Specialist Hospital in Rafah, journalist MOHAMMED MANHAL ABUARMANA, 27 years old, who works in the Hospital's Media Department, was killed at around 11:15AM, on Saturday. The journalist had gone out escorting hospital ambulances to cover the Israeli planes' bombardment of the tents of displaced people in "Mawasi" Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, and during the coverage, a reconnaissance plane fired a missile towards a group of citizens, where the journalist ABUARMANA was wounded by shrapnel from the missile in the head and chest, which led to his death immediately.

At the same time, freelance journalist FIRAS NADER ABU SHARKH (25 years old) was injured while covering the massacre with rocket fragments in both his left and right feet, despite wearing a full press uniform, and was taken by ambulance to the Kuwaiti Field Hospital for treatment.

Journalist SAMI MOHAMMED ABU GHALWA (66 years old) was wounded at about 11:00PM on Saturday with moderate to serious injuries while he was in his tent when F16 warplanes bombed the place with several missiles, wounding him with shrapnel in the abdomen and back, and a fracture in his right hand, and the death of a number of his family members, as he was transferred by civilian car to the field hospital for treatment.

JIHAD ABDUL LATIF AL-SHARAFI (23 years old) was injured and went to the place of the bombing directly. As soon as he reached the place, the reconnaissance plane fired a missile again, where shrapnel, stones, and glass from nearby buildings were scattered on those present, which led to his fall to the ground and injuries and bruises on the left hand as a result of the glass scattering on the ground. He received treatment at the Jordanian Field Hospital in Khan Younis.

 

(14^th July) Israeli occupation forces assaulted a group of journalists with stun grenades and gas canisters, and prevented them from covering the storming of Al-Ram town, and deleted the video material from their phones on Sunday.

SAIF AL-QAWASMI, 23 years old, reporter of "Al-Asimah" Network in Jerusalem, reported to MADA that he was present on Sunday in the town of "Al-Ram" with four of his colleagues: MOHAMMED AWAD, cameraman of the French Agency (36 years old), reporter of the "Al-Irsal" Network KARIM KHAMAISA (26 years old), cameraman of "Al-Jazeera Live" HADI SABARNEH (26 years old) and HAMZA AFANEH who works for "Palmonita" (24 years old), and they were all present when the occupation forces stormed the house of the perpetrator of an operation that had taken place in the city of "Ramle".

The occupation forces stormed the neighborhood, and closed the roads leading thereto, and fired sound and gas canisters for no reason, as there was no gathering, assembly or friction in the area, and removed the journalists about 200 meters away from the house and prevented them from filming, then forced them to show their phones and delete all the materials that were filmed there, except for SEIF, who refused to do so and showed them the Israeli press card, saying:  "I'm not going to open my phone, you're doing your job and I'm doing my job”, and after an altercation, the journalists were kicked out.

The soldiers took the journalists to a nearby yard and surrounded them there for about an hour and a half to prevent them from filming, but they found an angle that allowed them to see from above the fence and tried to film from it, after which the soldiers came again to try to prevent them from filming before they withdrew from the scene.

 

(16^th July) occupation soldiers prevented a group of journalists from covering the events near the "Innab" Checkpoint, east of Tulkarm, following a shooting attack at the site on Saturday afternoon.

According to the investigations of the field researcher of MADA Center, a military vehicle of the occupation forces went at 12:30PM on Tuesday, geading to the "Annab" checkpoint, east of Tulkarm, urging a group of journalists to cover the facts of a shooting attack that took place at the site: Al-Jazeera reporter LAITH JAAR (27 years old), "Quds" Network reporter HAMZA HAMDAN (23 years old), "Quds Feed" Network reporter NAGHAM BILAL ZAIT (24 years old), "Al-Arabi" TV reporter AMEED SHEHADEH (35 years old), and TV cameraman RABIE AL-MUNEER.

The journalists were present in the vicinity of the checkpoint and the town of "Anabta", east of Tulkarm, to cover the incident, but the occupation soldiers prevented them from covering and forcibly kicked them after they approached them in military jeeps and shouted at them through loudspeakers to leave the place.

 

(16^th July) The director and presenter of "Sawt Al-Aqsa" Radio MOHAMMED ABDALLAH MESHMESH (40 years old) was killed by shrapnel from a rocket that targeted a school to shelter displaced people in "Nuseirat" camp on Tuesday afternoon.

According to SAADI DHEIR, a colleague of journalist MOHAMMED MESHMESH on the radio, the journalist was one of the displaced people with his family at the UNRWA Al-Razi School, which shelters thousands of displaced people, and was killed at about 2:20PM, on Tuesday as a result of being wounded by shrapnel from a missile fired by an Israeli warplane targeting citizens in the school, and his son and more than twenty (20) civilians were killed.

 

(17^th July) Israeli occupation forces arrested journalist and writer ISRAA from her family house in the town of "Sourif", west of Hebron, at dawn on Wednesday after raiding and searching the house and confiscating her personal phone and camera recording device for the house.

According to the investigations of MADA researcher, at approximately 1:30AM, on Wednesday, a force from occupation soldiers raided the family home of journalist ISRAA KHADER AHMAD GHUNAIMAT (39 years old) in the town of "Sourif", west of Hebron. The soldiers held the journalist and her family members in the hall of the house and searched the house for about fifteen (15) minutes. Before leaving, soldiers arrested the journalist and confiscated her personal phone and camera recording device, and she was transferred to military vehicles, after blindfolding and handcuffing her with plastic handcuffs. 

ISRAA is in the "Damon” Detention Center for women, and a decision was issued against her for administrative detention for a period of six (6) months on 23^rd July 2024.

 

(17^th July) The occupation soldiers beat a group of journalists and confiscated their press equipment and cell phones while they were in the village of Artas in Bethlehem city to cover the storming of the village on Wednesday morning.

According to the statement of the reporter of the Russian English-Language News Agency (voiry) ABDUL  RAHMAN YOUNIS, to MADA, at about 8:30AM, on Wednesday,  a group of journalists: HISHAM ABU SHAKRA, the cameraman of the Turkish "Anatolia" Agency, ABDUL RAHMAN HASSAN, the reporter of "Palestine Today" TV, and journalist AYA RAMADAN the reporter of "Palestine Post", went to the village of Artas, south of Bethlehem, to cover the incursion of the occupation forces into the area, all of them wearing press uniforms, and one of the military vehicles caught fire as a result of a technical defect.

The four journalists remained about 250 meters away from the scene of the burning vehicle to film what was happening. A force of fifteen (15) soldiers arrived at the journalists’ location, and the soldiers told them not to move, to stay away from the site, and the journalists obeyed orders.

About ten (10) minutes later, another force of soldiers, reinforced by three (3) military vehicles, arrived, and a number of soldiers, including a masked soldier, dismounted and said, "Why are you filming me?" The journalist ABDUL RAHMAN replied that he didn't film him and that they finished filming before he arrived. The soldier came forward and put the barrel of the gun in YOUNES' neck and told him, "If you move, I will kill you”.

In the meantime, a number of soldiers approached the journalist HISHAM ABU SHAKRA, and beat him with hands all over his body. One of them searched him thoroughly and violently, while one of the soldiers was holding his neck and pressing him strongly. While the assault continued, the soldiers did not ask the journalists for their cards or personal identities, and after several minutes, the soldiers confiscated a canon-5d- smork3 camera, on which a microphone Rod was installed, a stand of its own, and a 14 pro-max iPhone, from journalist ABDUL RAHMAN YOUNIS, as well as Canon-video cameras, and a stand from journalist HISHAM ABU SHAKRA, and the soldiers confiscated the phone of journalist AYA RAMADAN type X-R, and the identity of journalist ABDUL RAHMAN YOUNIS, which the soldiers had asked him for security checks, after which the force withdrew after journalist ABDUL RAHMAN heard one of the soldiers say, "We took his phone”.

Journalists filed complaints with the DCO, the International Red Cross, and several organizations specialized in caring for journalists, but the confiscated items had not been recovered as of the date of writing this report.

 

(19^th July) The occupation soldiers targeted freelance journalist SIDQI RAYAN with a tear gas canister that hit the helmet on the head, and also with gunshots but did not hit him while covering Friday's storming of the town of Beita.

According to the testimony of freelance journalist SEDQI AYESH RAYAN (23 years old) to MADA researcher, he was present at about 2:15PM on Friday in the town of "Beita" to cover the incursion of the occupation forces into the town, and during the coverage, one of the soldiers targeted him with a gas canister that hit the helmet on his head, and the gas spray entered his eyes, and when he tried to get away, he was targeted with live bullets, but they did not hit him.

 

(19^th July) The Israeli police obstructed the work of journalist NADINE JAAFAR in the "Lions Gate" area in Jerusalem on Friday afternoon, subjected her to a thorough search, and kicked her from the place to prevent her from completing her work.

According to the testimony of the reporter of "Al-Asimah" Network, NADINE JAAFAR, she was present at about 1:00PM on Friday in the "Lions Gate" area in Jerusalem to cover the events for the Network, when one of the occupation police officers went to her and forced her  to undergo a thorough search by female soldiers, and told her: "Because you are rude and disrespectful, I will kick you from the place, if you respected yourself, this would not have happened", and when NADINE asked about the reason, he told her:  "Follow their instructions so you don't get beaten”.

One of the soldiers took the journalist's bag and searched her personal belongings, and a second female soldier accompanied her to stand on the wall and search her physically, NADINE said: "She was extremely bad, I felt that it was harassment and not a search”, after which they forced her to leave the place to prevent her from completing her work.

 

(20^th July) Journalist MOHAMMED ABU JASSER and three members of his family were killed by shrapnel from Israeli missiles at dawn on Saturday as a result of the bombing of his house in Jabalya, northern Gaza Strip.

Journalist MAHMOUD AL-AWADIA told MADA that journalist MOHAMMED SAEED ABU JASSER (38 years old) who worked for the newspaper "Al-Resalah" was accompanied by his family inside his home in "Jabalya" in the northern Gaza Strip, when Israeli warplanes targeted the house at about 3:30AM on Saturday with a missile, which led to the death of the journalist as a result of the injury by shrapnel from the missile in different places on his body. This is in addition to the death of his wife, three of his children, and his crippled mother, not to mention the destruction of his house completely.

 

(20^th July) Journalist at the Islamic University Public Relations Department, MUTASIM GHORAB, was killed in the bombing of his house in Nuseirat Camp, and journalist MAHMOUD EKI was wounded in the right arm by shrapnel from an Israeli missile while targeting a tower in Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip, where he was transferred for treatment at Al-Awda Hospital.

According to the investigations of MADA Center researcher, journalist MUTASIM GHORAB and a number of his family members were killed during the bombing of his house by a missile from an F16 warplane, which led to the destruction of the house completely, and he was transferred to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp via ambulance.

Journalist MAHMOUD ABDEL HAKIM EKI, 32 years old, was wounded in the right arm and taken by civilian car to al-Awda Hospital in the camp for treatment.

EKI and his colleague journalist ASHRAF AL-SARRAJ arrived at about 11:45 PM on Saturday at "Nuseirat" Camp to cover the bombing of one of the towers of "Ain Jalut" in the Camp after being threatened by the occupation forces. They were 500 meters away from the tower, and while concocting cameras in preparation for coverage, an Israeli warplane targeted the tower, and shrapnel flew, which led to a shrapnel injury in his right arm, and he was transferred to "Al-Awda" Hospital for treatment.

 

(20^th July) The Israeli occupation forces raided the house of journalist HAMZA AL-JABER in the town of "Jabaa", south of Jenin, at dawn on Saturday, and arrested his brother to pressure him to turn himself in, until he turned himself in hours after his brother's arrest.

The Israeli occupation forces stormed the house of freelance journalist HAMZA TAYSEER SALIM AL-JABER (23 years old) at about 03:00AM on Saturday, searched the house and tampered with its contents and damaged furniture and decorations, broke two cars for the family. Furthermore, the soldiers stole the amount of two thousand shekels (2000 ILS), a watch valued at $200, and two laptops.

The journalist was not at home, so the soldiers arrested his brother YOUSUF to pressure him to turn himself in, and at about 1:00PM, HAMZA went to Dotan Camp and turned himself in to release his brother.

 

(21^st July) An Israeli reconnaissance aircraft targeted journalist and political analyst HAIDAR AL-MASDAR while he was covering near a tent for journalists at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah on Sunday afternoon.

According to human rights activist ABDALLAH SHARSHARA as reported to MADA, an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft targeted media and political analyst HAIDAR IBRAHIM AL-MASDAR, 45 years old, at around 12:00PM, on Sunday, corresponding to 21^st July.

The journalist was directly targeted while he was in a tent near the journalists' tent at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip to cover the events, which led to his injury with shrapnel in different parts of his body and his death on the spot.

(22^nd July) Photojournalist MOHAMMED AL-ZA'ANIN sustained leg wounds caused by shrapnel from Israeli rocket fire in Abasan al-Kabirah area of Khan Younis on Monday morning.

According to the testimony of MOHAMMED NABIL AL-ZA'ANIN, a cameraman and producer at the Palestine Media Production Company  (PMP), he went at approximately 10:00AM, on Monday to the town of "Abasan al-Kabirah" east of Khan Younis to cover the displacement of thousands of citizens after the occupation asked them to evacuate their homes in preparation for the start of a military operation in the area, noting that he was wearing the press uniform and the press sign.

During the coverage, Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a gathering of citizens, where one of the houses was directly hit and shrapnel was scattered, resulting in the injury of journalist AL-ZA'ANIN in the right leg below the knee, and shrapnel hit the left knee, so he fell to the ground and was transferred to Nasser Hospital via a civilian car for treatment.

(23^rd July) The Israeli occupation forces targeted a group of journalists and media crews twice during the raid into Tulkarm Refugee Camp, first with tear gas canisters, and the second time by throwing wastewater at them to prevent them from covering the incursion into the camp on Tuesday.

According to the testimony of Quds News Network reporter HAMZA MAHMOUD HAMDAN (23 years old) to MADA Center, a group of journalists namely: Al-Jazeera crew consisting of journalist MOHAMMED AL-ATRASH, cameraman LOUAY SAEED, Al-Jazeera reporter LAITH JAAR (27 years old), Al-Ghad TV reporter KHALED BDEIR, cameraman SHADI JARARA, Qudsfeed reporter NAGHAM AL-ZAYET, were near the main entrance to Tulkarm Refugee Camp to cover the Israeli occupation forces' incursion into the camp, and as soon as the military vehicle passed by, one of the soldiers directly targeted them with a smoke bomb to prevent them from coverage.

At 11:00AM, a military vehicle, while passing at high speed, threw stagnant wastewater at journalists resulting from the destruction of infrastructure in the camp, and journalists LAITH JAAR, HAMZA HAMDAN, journalist NAGHAM AL-ZAYET, journalist WAHHAJ BANI MUFLEH, journalist JAAFAR ISHTAYEH, journalist ALAA BADARNEH, journalist ESSAM AL-RIMAWI, and journalist HADI SABARNEH were present.

 

(25^th July) Israeli occupation forces arrested photojournalist HAZEM NASSER after raiding his house in the suburb of Shweikeh, north of Tulkarm, at dawn on Thursday and taking him to an unknown destination.

According to his father's testimony to MADA Center researcher, the Israeli occupation forces raided the house of Al-Najah TV cameraman HAZEM IMAD NASSER, located in the suburb of Shweikeh, north of Tulkarm, at 4:00AM on Thursday, broke the door lock and entered the house and scattered its contents, then the cameraman was arrested without any clear charge and taken to an unknown location.

 

(25^th July) Israeli occupation forces detained journalist KARAM HUSSEIN during a raid into the town of "Azzun" east of Qalqilya on Thursday evening under the hot sun for more than two hours while threatening to open fire while he was trying to adjust the way he was sitting.

According to freelance journalist KARAM AYMAN HUSSEIN, 22 years old, he went to cover the Israeli occupation forces' incursion into the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, and when the soldiers saw him, they opened fire at him until he withdrew from the place and entered a shop.

The soldiers held him inside the shop, then took him out and forced him to sit in a narrow corner in the scorching sun, verbally assaulted him, and threatened to shoot him every time he tried to adjust his sitting, and the journalist remained detained from 6:30AM in the same position under the sun until he was released. 

 

(26^th July) Israeli warplanes targeted the house of journalist AWAD ABU DOQQA in the town of "Abasan Al-Kabirah" in Khan Younis city with aircraft shelling on Friday morning, destroying it and injuring two of his children with shrapnel from the shelling.

According to journalist MARIAM ABU DOQQA, Israeli warplanes targeted the house of journalist AWAD NABHAN ABU DOQQA (39 years old) in the town of "Abasan al-Kabirah", east of Khan Younis, at approximately 7:15AM, on Friday.

As a result of the shelling, the house was completely destroyed, and two of the journalist's children were injured in different parts of their bodies by shrapnel from rockets and were transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

AWAD ABU DOQQA used to work for Shams News before moving to Syria to work as a lecturer at one of its universities.

 

(26^th July) The Israeli police obstructed the work of the Turkish TV TRT in the Bab al-Asbat area of Jerusalem on Friday morning, prevented them from media coverage, assaulted them by pushing them hard, and forced them to leave.

According to the cameraman OMAR AWAD, 53 years old, to a MADA researcher, he and fellow TV reporter MUJAHID IDIMIR went to the Bab al-Asbat area on Friday morning to cover Friday prayers. Upon arrival at 11:00PM, the police checked their Israeli press cards as a routine procedure and were approved by the officer to park them at a place away from the checkpoints.

The crew was preparing for the live broadcast, when a violent fight began between one of the worshipers and the soldiers, as the young man escaped from the soldiers' grip towards the crew, so OMAR turned on the camera to film without moving from the place, according to him, and one of the soldiers put his hand on the camera lens and pushed him back and called for help from the other soldiers.

The cameraman fell to the ground due to the intensity of the push, his hand was under his body, and his camera was damaged due to falling to the ground. The assault caused an injury to the left part of the body and an injury to the right elbow.

Meanwhile, the TV’s reporter was filming using his personal phone, when one of the female soldiers came and shouted at him to give her his phone. When he said that he was a journalist accredited by the Israeli Authorities (and that he held an Israeli press card), she replied that this did not concern her and forced him to open the phone. She then deleted the video herself before returning the phone to him and kicked them from the place.

The cameraman OMAR did not seek treatment, citing his injury as minor.

 

(27^th July) On Saturday morning, Watan and Quds reporter YOUSEF AL-FIRANI was injured and bruised in various parts of his body during an Israeli warplane's bombing of a field hospital inside a school housing displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

According to journalist YOUSEF ASHRAF AL-FIRANI, 23 years old, to MADA Center, he was present at about 11:43AM, on Saturday near a field hospital inside "Khadija" School, which shelters a number of displaced people, and when the main gate of the school was directly bombed, shrapnel from the shelling was scattered everywhere, which led to the injury of the journalist in the head, lower left foot and left side of the pelvis, and he also suffered bruises in various parts of his body and lost consciousness for several minutes after falling to the ground.

The journalist was taken by ambulance to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and no surgery was performed to extract shrapnel from his body due to the lack of necessary medical resources.

 

(28^th July) The occupation soldiers detained journalist MUTASIM JABER "DAANA" near the settlement of Kiryat Arba for about five hours on Sunday morning, confiscated his identity card and press card, beat him with their hands and kicked him with their feet, and then released him at about 2:00PM.

According to journalist MUTASIM BADWAN JABER, 46 years old, who owns the online Hawana Social Media, he was detained by the occupation soldiers at around 9:30AM, on Sunday at a checkpoint in the eastern area of Hebron as he passed to reach the city center.

The occupation soldiers stopped the journalist and asked him for his ID card, press card, and mobile phone, and the soldiers forced him to stop near an observation point for about 20 minutes. He was taken blindfolded and handcuffed to an area of a military camp 500 meters away from the place of detention at the entrance to the settlement of Kiryat Arba, where he was forced to sit on the ground on the knees and lower his head down, not to mention he was also searched.

The soldiers also played songs in Hebrew over loudspeakers, dancing and insulting the journalist with profanity, filming themselves dancing around him, kicking him with their feet, and hitting him on the head and back with their hands.

The journalist's detention continued until 2:00PM, when the soldiers asked him about the nature of his work, and he was taken a short distance away, then returned his cards and phone and asked him to leave.

 

(29^th July) Freelance journalist MOHAMMED ABU DOQQA was killed during the bombing of an Israeli drone on a gathering of citizens at an Internet signal point next to the Palestinian Telecommunications Company in Khan Younis on Monday morning.

According to journalist HASSAN ISLAIH, freelance journalist MOHAMMED ABU DOQQA was present at around 11:20AM, on Monday with a group of citizens near the Palestinian Telecommunications Police in Khan Yunis in search of an internet signal.

Meanwhile, an Israeli drone targeted a gathering of citizens including the journalist, where he was injured by shrapnel from the rocket and was killed on the spot along with four other civilians.

 

(31^st July) A missile fired from a drone targeted the car of journalists ISMAIL AL-GHOUL and RAMI AL-RIFI on Wednesday afternoon, while he was in al-Shati camp on a journalistic mission, killing them instantly.

According to journalist ANAS AL-SHARIF, two journalists, ISMAIL AL-GHOUL, 27 years old, a reporter for Al-Jazeera, and RAMI AL-RIFI, 26 years old, a cameraman cooperating with Al-Jazeera and working for the National News Agency, were present at around 4:00PM on Wednesday in Al-Shati Camp in Gaza City, near the house of the Head of Hamas Political Office, ISMAIL HANIYEH, in a live follow-up to his assassination, and they were wearing press uniforms and riding in a car with the press badge on it.

The occupation soldiers had asked all journalists near the house to evacuate the place through a call, and while the journalists AL-GHOUL and AL-RIFI were passing on one of the roads in the camp, they were targeted by a missile fired from a drone directly towards the car, which led to their death immediately, as the journalist AL-GHOUL arrived at the Baptist Hospital with his head separated from his body, while part of the cameraman’s body turned into pieces.

In the beginning, journalist ISLAM BADR, a reporter for "Al-Arabi" TV, was present with the journalists AL-GHOUL and AL-RIFI moments before they were targeted, as the reconnaissance planes covered the skies from the moment they were near the house of ISMAIL HANIYEH, but he felt serious danger due to the low level of flying of the drones and left the place.