Ramallah – October 3ed, 2024. September 2024 witnessed a significant increase in the number of violations against media freedoms in Palestine compared to the previous month of August, as the number of violations monitored by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) rose to 148 violations, compared to a total of 105 documented during the previous month, an increase of 41%.
The increase in the number of violations during the month of September was mainly due to the fierce attack launched by the occupation forces and authorities on the cities and camps of the northern West Bank. Since the end of last August, the Israeli authorities announced the start of a large-scale military operation in the areas of the northern West Bank, specifically in the cities of Jenin, Tulkarm, Tubas and their camps, which continued until the sixth of September, which significantly increased the number of Israeli violations.
The total number of violations documented during the month of September amounted to 148 violations, distributed over 140 Israeli violations, including 132 violations in the West Bank and 8 violations in the Gaza Strip, while various Palestinian parties in the West Bank and Gaza committed 5 violations, 4 of which were in the West Bank, and one violation committed by other Palestinian parties in the Gaza Strip, while the Facebook platform, owned by Meta, restricted the content of a journalist’s account in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Violations:
Israeli violations witnessed a significant increase during the past month of September, reaching 140 attacks against media freedoms compared to a total of 104 violations documented during the previous month of August. This increase was 35% and 36 points. Israeli violations constituted 95% of the total documented violations, distributed over 132 violations in the West Bank and 8 attacks in the Gaza Strip, including three murders of journalists.
In addition to the systematic killings, the most serious danger lies in the number of cases of direct targeting to prevent coverage of the extremely serious and dangerous threatening to media freedoms, which journalists and media crews were subjected to in the cities of the West Bank during their coverage of the military operation launched by the occupation forces in the cities of the northern West Bank, which amounted to 39 cases of direct targeting, in addition to 43 other cases in which journalists were subjected to prevent coverage.On the other hand, the occupation bulldozers attempted to run over 22 journalists to prevent them from covering the ongoing events in the West Bank. They also arrested 4 journalists from their homes. One of them was released hours after her arrest on bail of 6,000 shekels and house arrest for a week, while three journalists remained in detention, one of whom is a student at the Faculty of Media at Birzeit University.
MADA documented 11 physical attacks, including 8 cases that occurred in the West Bank and 3 cases of journalists who were injured by shrapnel resulting from Israeli missile shelling in the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing since October 7th, 2023.
In the second half of September, the occupation forces raided the office of Al Jazeera Network, confiscated its equipment and closed it for 45 days. They also raided the homes of two journalists in the city of Hebron and wreaked havoc on them. The occupation soldiers also stormed the headquarters of the Palestinian Media Company, confiscated some of its equipment and destroyed other parts.
As part of the ongoing effort to silence journalists, the Hebrew media incited against two journalists in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Broadcasting Authority broadcast an inflammatory report against them in an attempt to distort their work and threaten to target them to dissuade them from continuing their journalistic coverage and transmitting the events of the war.
On September 1st, the occupation authorities transferred photojournalist HAZEM NASSER from Tulkarm to administrative detention for 5 months. He has been detained since July 25.
Palestinian Violations:
The number of Palestinian violations increased during September compared to the previous month of August, rising from 0 violations to 7 violations. Palestinian violations constituted 5% of the total documented violations, 4 of which occurred in the West Bank, where the Palestinian Intelligence Service arrested journalist AHMED AL-BITAWI and released him after 15 days on a personal bail of 1,000 Jordanian dinars. The security of Halhul Governmental Hospital also prevented the Al Jazeera crew from covering the occupation forces’ storming of the hospital, and the Palestinian Presidential Security prevented journalist MOHAMMED TURKMAN from covering the occupation forces’ storming of the city of Al-Bireh.
It documented the case of the kidnapping of journalist Abdullah Al-Sayed, who works for TRT in the Gaza Strip, and the assault on him, beating him, and stealing all his belongings after he refused to open his phone’s pin code.
Media Martyrs during the Month of September
Journalist Name |
Martyrdom Date |
Workplace |
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Abdullah Omar Shakshak |
September 13th, 2024 |
Freelance Journalist |
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Mohammed Salem Abu Shuqa |
September 17th, 2024 |
Milad News Network |
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Wafaa’ Al-Adini |
September 30th, 2024 |
Organization Day of Palestine |
Details of Violations:
September 1st. The occupation soldiers targeted a group of journalists with live bullets, more than once, and obstructed their work on Sunday evening, while they were near the Area Command building in the city of Hebron to cover the siege of a house where a resistance fighter had taken refuge.
Freelance journalist HASSAN AWAD RAJOUB, a researcher at MADA Center, reported that he and the journalists: MOHAMMED RAJOUB, freelance journalist ABDUL RAHIM TAHA, LOUAY AMRO, and journalist NIDAL ASHMAR AL-NATSHEH, were present at around 4:30 PM on Sunday, September 1st, near the Area Command building in the city of Hebron to cover the occupation forces’ siege of a resistance fighter who was barricading in an old house opposite the Area Command building.
While journalists were covering the clashes and confrontations, the occupation soldiers deployed in the area targeted the journalists by firing live bullets from a distance of 400 meters, despite their presence behind one of the concrete blocks in the area.
The journalists remained in the same place while the coverage continued, as the targeting was repeated three times until the soldiers withdrew from the area and the shooting stopped.
September 1st. The occupation soldiers prevented a number of press crews from covering the events in the town of "Idhna" west of the city of Hebron on Saturday morning, following a shooting attack and the occupation forces closing the town.
A group of journalists had headed to the town of "Idhna" west of the city of Hebron at around 9:00 AM on Sunday, September 1st, after the occupation forces closed the town after carrying out a shooting attack near the northern entrance.
While the press crews were covering the event, they were: (Al Jazeera correspondent MONTASER NASSAR, the channel’s photographer AHMED AMR, Al Arabiya correspondent CHRISTINE RINAWI and the channel’s photographer ALI AL DIWANI, Palestine TV correspondent SARI AWIWI and photographer THAER FAQOUSA, Al Hurriya Radio correspondent MOHAMMED ABU JAHISHEH), a number of soldiers arrived at the scene and asked for press cards for each of: MONTASER NASSAR, CHRISTINE RINAWI, and SARI AWIWI.
After 5 minutes, the soldier asked the photographers to move away from the place, a distance of no less than 100 meters, and forced them to stop filming and turn off the cameras, while the soldiers followed the journalists and asked them for their personal IDs and press cards.
Despite this, the Al Jazeera crew tried to complete the coverage, but one of the soldiers returned and stopped their correspondent, MONTASER NASSAR, preventing him from broadcasting. He forced the press crews to move away, and the soldiers returned their identity cards to them, except for the two journalists: MONTASER NASSAR and MOHAMMED ABU JAHISHEH. They were returned after eight hours had passed, while the soldiers kept the cards of the Al Arabiya TV crew and handed them over the next day. The press card of the Palestine satellite channel correspondent, SARI AL-AWIWI, was not handed over.
September 2nd. A large number of journalists and media crews were targeted with live bullets, which resulted in the injury of the director of photography at the French agency, RONALDO, with a bullet fragment in his right hand, and the injury of the Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent with another fragment in the head. Bulldozers also pursued them and tried to run them over several times during their coverage of the storming of the city of Jenin on Monday.
Journalist MOHAMMAD ABED, a 29-year-old Quds News Network correspondent, told MADA that a group of journalists and media crews were present at 2:30 PM on Monday on Nablus Street to cover the movements of the military bulldozers that stormed the city of Jenin. They were: the crew of the Turkish Anadolu Agency, ISSAM RIMAWI and HISHAM ABU SHAKRA, the Associated Press photographer, MAJDI SHTAYYEH, the freelance journalist ALI SHTAYYEH, the freelance journalist MOHAMMED ATIQ, the correspondents of Palestine Post, MASHAEL ABU AL-RUB and the journalist MUJAHID AL-SAADI, the correspondent of Al-Jazeera Mubasher, SHATHA HANAYSHEH and the photographer HADI SABARNEH, and the photographer of the French Agency, RONALDO; also, the crew of Al-Ghad TV, the correspondent KHALED BADIR and the photographer SHADI JARARA’A, the crew of Al-Arabi TV, the correspondent AMID SHAHADA and the photographer RABI’ MUNIR, the correspondent of TRT English Channel, FATEN ALWAN, the freelance journalist AMR MANASRA, the correspondent of Quds Feed, JARRAH KHALAF, and the photographer of Reuters, RANEEN SAWAFTA.
During the coverage, the wheeled bulldozer attempted to run over freelance journalist MOHAMMED ATIQ and photographer RANEEN SAWAFTA while they were near the Civil Defense. It also pursued journalists SHATHA HANAYSHA, MISHAAL ABU AL-RUB, MUJAHID AL-SAADI, and HISHAM ABU SHAQRA while they were in their vehicles.
At around 2:45 PM, the journalists headed towards the Cinema Roundabout, away from the military bulldozers, where the leveling operations began. The soldiers began shooting from the bulldozer windows over the heads of the journalists who were distributed in several areas. Some of them went towards Abu Bakr Street, others towards the Cinema Hotel, and others towards the Hospitals Street. During that, the occupation soldiers opened fire at the journalists while chasing them with the military bulldozers, which resulted in the injury of the Director of Photography at the French Agency, journalist RONALDO, with shrapnel in his right hand. Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent SHATHA HANAYSHA was also injured by a bullet shrapnel in the head.
Journalist Abed stated that he, the Al-Arabi TV crew, the Al-Ghad TV crew, the journalist AMR MANASRA, the journalist JARRAH KHALAF, and the freelance journalist MUJAHID NAWAHDA, headed to Abu Bakr Street, where they were targeted with live bullets that continued until they disappeared from the soldiers’ sight. At 2:52 PM, the bulldozers tried to run them over as they were returning towards them at high speed several times in a row.
A few minutes later, one of the bulldozers attacked them with its front, forcing them to take cover in the entrance of a commercial building, and the bulldozer hit one of the pillars of the building in which they were taking cover.
September 2nd. The occupation forces verbally assaulted the Al Jazeera crew and prevented them from covering the intersection leading to Al Shuhada Street in the city of Hebron on Monday evening. They forced them to delete the filmed material, and the soldier threatened to shoot them if they did not leave the area.
Al Jazeera Channel Coordinator MOHAMMED AWAD RAJOUB told MADA that the Al Jazeera Channel crew, consisting of: correspondent JIVARA AL-BADRI, photographer BASHIR SALAMA, broadcast engineer ELIAS SALIBA, and the channel’s coordinator in the city of Hebron MOHAMMED RAJOUB, were present in the southern area of the city of Hebron, specifically at the intersection leading to the closed Shuhada Street at around 5:00 PM on Monday to cover the attacks by the occupation forces.
After about 15 minutes, 10 soldiers arrived on foot from one of the observation points in the area. One of them stepped forward and closed the camera lens, forcing the photographer to delete the footage, while another soldier cursed the crew with obscene words and forced them to leave the site, preventing them from covering the event on the grounds that it was a military area.
When the soldier moved 100 meters away, the crew resumed the live broadcast again, but another soldier threatened to shoot the crew if they continued the coverage.
September 2nd. Awda TV correspondent ANAS FAYEZ HAWSHIYA (37 years old) was subjected to an attempted run-over by occupation forces’ vehicles in the city of Jenin on Monday evening.
According to the journalist’s statement to a MADA Center researcher, at 3:15 PM on Monday, during the incursion of new military reinforcements into the city of Jenin, journalist ANAS was with his colleague, journalist AHMED ABDEL KHALEQ, from Al-Alam TV, in front of the “Life Ambulance” center near Al-Amal Hospital in the city of Jenin, preparing for a live broadcast about the storming of the city and the incursion of new military reinforcements into it. When the occupation soldiers realized their presence, bulldozers began approaching them, so they fled and changed their location to the opposite side, and a D9 military bulldozer pursued them again in an attempt to run them over.
The journalists kept moving left and right, escaping the bulldozer, until they reached Al-Amal Hospital.
September 2nd. The Facebook application owned by “META Police” has restricted the account of Al-Arabiya TV correspondent in the northern Gaza Strip, Islam WAEL BADR (38 years old), to prevent the content from reaching his friends on the account.
In his testimony, the Palestine TV correspondent in the northern Gaza Strip said that after months of using his Facebook account to publish news, opinion articles, and some scenes of war and displacement so that followers and friends could see the extent of the suffering that citizens in Palestine are exposed to, Facebook began to impose restrictions on his posts, and the viewership rates for his posts decreased, as did the access rates, until they reached (0) for the content, which led to the posts being deliberately blocked from followers, as the company restricted the account at a critical time during the war to prevent local and international interaction with the issues of our people.
Journalist ISLAM BADR confirmed that this policy is considered biased towards the occupation and is part of the fight against Palestinian content and preventing the disclosure and dissemination of the truth. This is not the first time that Facebook management has deliberately restricted the account and closed previous accounts.
September 3rd. Israeli special forces targeted journalists in the city of Tulkarm by firing live bullets directly at them to prevent them from covering the withdrawal of forces from a house in the "Dhanaba" suburb after carrying out an assassination operation against two citizens on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the statement of Roya TV correspondent, journalist HAFETH SABRA, to MADA, the journalist and channel photographer MAHMOUD FAWZI, in addition to the two photojournalists MAJDI SHTAYYEH and ALI SHTAYYEH, were present at around 4:05 PM on Tuesday in the “Dhanaba” suburb of Tulkarm city, to cover the withdrawal of the Israeli special forces from a house after carrying out an assassination operation against citizens.
The journalists were fully dressed in press uniform and were in a place far from the house. While the first military jeep was withdrawing, which had prepared the way for the withdrawal of the special forces, the military jeep approached them and one of the soldiers opened the door of the jeep and fired 4 live bullets directly at them, but they did not hit any of them.
September 3rd. A number of journalists were injured by live bullets and bullet fragments during media coverage of the occupation forces' storming of the town of "Kafr Dan" west of the city of Jenin on Tuesday afternoon.
According to a statement by AYMAN AL-NUBANI, a photographer for the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), to MADA, he and his colleague, reporter MOHAMMED MANSOUR, Al-Fajr TV correspondent YAZAN HAMAYEL, and Reuters photographer RANEEN SAWAFTA, went to the town of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin, at around 2:30 PM on Tuesday, in three cars and wearing full press uniforms, after news arrived that the occupation forces had stormed the town and besieged a house there.
On their way to the town, an Israeli sniper began firing at their cars, as they were 100 meters away from him, which led to the injury of WAFA correspondent, journalist MOHAMMED MANSOUR, with a bullet in the left hand, which was later found to have caused a bone fracture in the hand. Photographer Al-Nubani was also injured by shrapnel from the bullets in his right hand, and journalist YAZAN HAMAYEL was injured by shrapnel in his right foot, while photographer RANEEN SAWAFTA’s car was damaged as a result of being hit by the bullets.
The injured journalists were transferred to Ibn Sina Hospital for treatment. While they were in the ambulance at the entrance to the hospital, the occupation soldiers searched the car, searched them, and interrogated them.
September 3rd. The occupation forces attacked the press crews in the “Al-Tawun Al-Olwi” area in Nablus while they were covering the demolition operations on Tuesday, September 3.
According to the testimony of the Quds News Network correspondent, ABDULLAH TAYSEER AL-BAHASH (27 years old), to the MADA Center, at exactly 12:30 PM on Tuesday, the following were present: the correspondent of the Wafa Agency, BASSAM ABU AL-RUB, the correspondent of Palestine Post, MUJAHID TABANJA, the freelance journalist SIDQI RAYYAN, the correspondent of Al-Madina TV, SAJIDA BANI SHAMSEH, the correspondent of Al-Fajr TV, WALAA FATAYER, and the journalist YASSER HABISHA in the “Al-Tawun Al-Olwi” area in the city of Nablus to cover the demolition operations carried out by the occupation forces, where the occupation forces began to demolish a house in the area, and during that, the occupation forces attacked the journalists WALAA and SAJIDA and prevented them from filming, and one of the soldiers tried to take their mobile phones, so they told him that they would all withdraw and would not cover the event and moved to another area trying to take pictures of the demolition operation, and when one of the soldiers saw them, he raised his weapon at them and fired a tear gas canister to disperse them and force them to leave the area.
September 4th. A group of journalists were subjected to an attempt to run over by an Israeli military vehicle while covering the event in Tulkarm camp on Wednesday evening.
According to the testimony of the Quds News Network correspondent, journalist HAMZA HAMDAN (23 years old) to the MADA Center, the press crews were present at the northern entrance to Tulkarm camp at exactly 5:00 PM on Wednesday to cover the ongoing storming of the camp, where the occupation vehicles tried to run over a group of journalists but were unable to. They were Quds Feed Network correspondent NAGHAM AL-ZAYET (24 years old), Palestine Post correspondent TASNEEM SLEET (27 years old), freelance journalist RAGHAD SALAMA (25 years old), and TRT Arabic correspondent MUSAB AL-KHATIB.
September 4th. A number of journalists were subjected to an attempted run-over by an Israeli bulldozer driver while covering the bulldozing operations carried out by the occupation forces in the city of Jenin on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the statement of Al-Ghad TV correspondent Diaa Hawshiya to MADA Center, Al-Ghad TV correspondent and cameraman MUNTHER AL-KHATIB, in addition to Al-Alam TV correspondent and journalist AYA AROUQ, were present near the Cinema Roundabout in the city of Jenin.
During the coverage, the journalists were subjected to an attempt to run them over by the Israeli bulldozer driver, despite them wearing press uniforms that indicated their identity, but they managed to escape.
September 5th. The occupation soldiers targeted journalists by firing live bullets at them directly near the entrance to Tulkarm camp on Thursday morning, September 5th.
According to the testimony of the Quds News Network correspondent, journalist HAMZA HAMDAN, to a researcher at MADA Center, a number of journalists were present in Tulkarm camp on Thursday morning to cover the destruction left by the occupation forces inside the camp after their withdrawal from it following a long military operation that resulted in widespread destruction of the infrastructure and restrictions on citizens. While the press crews were inspecting the camp and carrying out their work, the occupation forces returned to storm the camp again at 10:30 AM on Thursday, and during that, the occupation soldiers deliberately fired live bullets directly at the journalists.
Among those known are Quds Feed correspondent NAGHAM ZAYET, Al Jazeera crew (correspondent LAITH JAAR and photographer FADI YASSIN), and Al Arabiya TV correspondent CHRISTINE RINAWI.
September 5th. The occupation forces prevented journalists from being present in front of Al-Amal Hospital in Jenin and obstructed their work while covering the events taking place there on Thursday, the ninth day of the start of the military operation.
Quds News Network correspondent, journalist MOHAMMED ABED (29 years old), told MADA that at 7:00 pm on Thursday, journalists were present in front of Al-Amal Hospital in the city of Jenin to cover the events of the military operation on the city, which has been ongoing for nine days.
While the journalists were leaving the place, the officer in the military jeep called the journalist MOHAMMED ATIQ and asked for his press card. He checked it and told him in a few moments that he did not want to see you in the place. A military jeep also approached them and asked them to leave immediately. The military jeep continued to pursue the journalists until they reached Al-Shifa Hospital in the city, which is 100 meters away from Al-Amal Hospital. The officer told them, “If he sees them again, he will fire tear gas at them.”
Among the journalists present were: Quds News Network correspondent MOHAMMED ABED, Roya TV crew, correspondent Hafez Abu Sabra and photographer MAHMOUD FAWZI, freelance journalist MOHAMMED ATIQ, Quds Feed correspondent JARRAH KHALAF, Palestine Post correspondent journalist AMR MANASRA and freelance journalist AYOUB YAMAK, and freelance journalist AHMED SHAWISH.
September 5th. Al-Kufiya TV cameraman AHMED HAMMAD AL-NAKHALA (34 years old) was injured by shrapnel from the aircraft bombing in the northern Gaza Strip, resulting in wounds to his left foot and head, and burns all over his body.
According to the statement of the journalist AL-NAKHALAH, he was present at around 3:15 PM on Tuesday in the northern Gaza Strip on a mission to prepare press reports for the channel, and as he passed in front of the "Nimaa’" College, which was suddenly subjected to intense bombing by warplanes, and shrapnel flew, causing the journalist to sustain injuries resulting from the shrapnel of the bombing in his left foot and head. He also sustained burns in various parts of his body, and his injuries were described as moderate.
The journalist was transferred by ambulance to Sheikh Radwan Clinic and then transferred to the city's Baptist Hospital to complete treatment, as the bombing left martyrs and wounded.
September 6th. The Hebrew media incited against the correspondent of the Al-Hadath News Network, journalist MUTHANNA AL-NAJJAR, and the freelance journalist HASSAN ASLIH, and threatened to target them to prevent them from continuing to cover and transmit news of the war.
According to the testimony of freelance journalist HASSAN ASLIH to MADA, the two journalists have been subjected to systematic incitement by the occupation forces since the beginning of the war, as they were accused of covering the events of October 7th by infiltrating into the Gaza Envelope settlements. The incitement against the two journalists continued more than once, the last of which was on Wednesday, September 4th, after the Israeli Broadcasting Authority broadcasted an incitement report against them in an attempt to distort their work and threaten to target them to dissuade them from continuing their journalistic coverage and transmitting the events of the war.
Journalist HASSAN ASLIH considered that what they and a large number of journalists and activists did was not an infiltration, but rather came within the framework of journalistic coverage of a sudden event without expressing an opinion on it. Rather, it was field coverage of the events at the time.
ASLIH pointed out that he was surprised after 11 months of war by the continued incitement campaign by the Hebrew media, making accusations and claiming that he was looking for an opportunity to travel for fear of his life, which he denied and confirmed that he was continuing his journalistic work and had not tried to travel, and that the ongoing incitement had negatively affected his work, as he now feared for his life and that of his family from bombing or killing after the increase in public incitement through the Israeli media and some settler groups and pages on social media.
September 5th. The occupation forces arrested Palestine TV correspondent in Ramallah, journalist ALI MOHAMMED DAR ALI (40 years old), after raiding his home in the village of "Barham" northwest of Ramallah at dawn on Thursday, searching it and vandalizing some of its contents, and confiscating the journalist's equipment.
According to the testimony of SUJOUD DAR ASI, the journalist’s wife, to MADA Center, a force of occupation soldiers broke the lock on the main door of the house in the village of “Barham” northwest of the city of Ramallah, stormed the house, searched several rooms, and vandalized some of the furniture in the house.
The soldiers also confiscated three of ALI's mobile phones and a personal camera he uses for his journalistic work.
The soldiers arrested the journalist and left the house about 20 minutes after storming it and after assaulting him. He is currently being held in the Modi'in interrogation center, west of Ramallah, according to information from the Prisoners' Affairs Authority.
Four trial sessions were held for the journalist, which were postponed, and on September 24th it was decided to release the journalist on bail of 6,000 shekels, with the possibility of appealing the decision within 72 hours.
The next day, the lawyer informed the journalist's wife that the military judge had rejected the decision to release him on bail. On Thursday, September 29th, the lawyer was informed by official paper that he could be released for 50,000 shekels.
September 7th. The General Intelligence Service in Nablus arrested journalist AHMED AL-BITAWI (41 years old) who works for the “Sanad News Agency” after summoning him for an interview at the service’s headquarters on Saturday, September 7th. Journalist AHMED AL-BITAWI, is 41 years old.
According to the testimony of RANA AL-BITAWI, the journalist’s wife, to MADA Center, the journalist received a phone call on Friday, September 6th from a security officer asking him to go to the agency’s headquarters in the district headquarters in the city of Nablus for the purpose of a short interview only.
On Saturday morning at 10:30 AM, the journalist went to the intelligence headquarters. An hour after his arrival, he called his wife and told her that the agency had asked him to bring his cell phone and laptop. His brother had sent them to the intelligence headquarters in the governorate. After that, the family did not know any information about him.
The family contacted the representative of the Journalists Syndicate in Nablus on Saturday evening, who informed the journalist's brother and told him “He is likely arrested.”.
The family tried to call AHMED's phone, but no one answered, and then the device was turned off, but the family was not informed by any official body.
The next day - Sunday - the PA security services extended the journalist's detention for an additional 48 hours, and the prosecution charged him with "possessing a weapon and collecting and receiving money from illegal sources." A lawyer from the MADA Center submitted a request for his release, and it was decided to hold a second investigation session on September 22nd, but before the court.
On September 17th, journalist Al-BITAWI was released by the Public Prosecution on personal bail of 1000 Jordanian dinars, but the decision was not implemented. The Public Prosecution filed an appeal against the release decision and the case remained before the Court of Appeal. On Sunday September 22nd, the journalist was released after 15 days of detention.
September 9th. The occupation forces raided the house of freelance journalist ROSE AZMI IZZAT AL-ZARO (48 years old) in the “Jannat Eden” area in the town of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, on Monday morning. They confiscated her press cards and other papers and took her to the “Al-Maskobiyya” investigation center. She was released at 4:00 PM on bail of 6,000 shekels and house arrest for a week.
According to the testimony of journalist ROSE to a researcher at MADA Center, she heard a frantic knock on her door at around 6:00 AM on Monday morning, so she woke up her son to open the door, and then she found the female soldiers entering her room while she was naked except for her underwear, and she was immediately told that she was under arrest.
She put on what she found in front of her to cover her body, and they handcuffed her. The search of the house and the destruction of its contents continued for about two hours until 8:30 AM. During the search, ROSE was asked about the press shield and helmet, and she told them that it is normal for a journalist to have protective equipment, and that she holds international, Israeli, and Palestinian press cards, and that her work in the city of Jerusalem is legal.
The occupation soldiers confiscated all the documents, papers, cards and photos they found during the search, including the three press cards, a membership card in the Chamber of Commerce, all school certificates and university certificate, and certificates of completion of courses. She was accused according to them of being a "military person", in addition to her Jordanian ID (she has a national number), driving license, all bank cards, salary slip, wallet and the money in it. Military-colored pants and a blouse bearing the picture of the martyr (MISBAH ABU SUBAIH) belonging to her son were also confiscated.
The journalist's hands were tied behind her back, and the soldiers beat her all the way, because of her high blood sugar, without taking into account her health condition and her need for medication.
The journalist was interrogated in Room 4 of the “Maskobiyya” interrogation center about what was confiscated from the house, including photos with public figures in Jerusalem. The questions were of the type: “Who is this person? What is your relationship with the organization? What is your relationship with the region? Who do you know from Preventive Security? What does the governor do? Where is his office?.”.
After five hours of investigation, she went out to see the lawyer for a few minutes and then returned to complete the investigation, but this time the investigator (NADAV) was waiting for her. He is known to be responsible for everything related to institutions in the city of Jerusalem. The investigation ended around 4:00 PM with her release on bail of 6,000 shekels and an order for house arrest for a week, on the condition that she return on Thursday, September 12th, 2024, for another investigation session and change her statements, and admit that she works for the Jerusalem Governorate and Palestine TV. She was met with refusal and confirmed that she does not work with them, but rather publishes on her personal page and carries cards as a journalist.
The journalist did not go to the second session and intends to go to court in two months to recover all of her confiscated property, in addition to recovering the bail paid (under the collections item).
September 11th. Israeli military jeeps chased a number of journalists and media crews near the "Tayassir" junction on Wednesday afternoon in the city of Tubas and tried to run them over to prevent them from covering the storming of the city.
Among the journalists present were: the crew of the Turkish Anadolu Agency HISHAM ABU SHAKRA and ISSAM RIMAWI, the correspondent of Palestine Post MUJAHID TABANJA, the crew of Al Jazeera Channel correspondent JIVARA AL-BADRI and photographer AREF TUFFAHA, the correspondent of the Palestinian News Agency “Wafa” AYMAN AL-NUBANI, the photographer of the American “SIPA UAS” agency NASSER SHTAYYEH, the freelance journalist RIMA DARAGHMEH, the crew of Palestine TV AMIR SHAHEEN and SALIM BASHARAT.
September 11th. On Wednesday, the occupation soldiers targeted journalists who were present at the "Saint Maurice" Hotel in Tulkarm with live bullets while they were going up to their rooms after covering the military operation in the city and its camps.
Freelance journalist SUHAIB IYAD ABU DIAK (22 years old) told a MADA researcher that he was in the cafeteria of the “Saint Maurice” Hotel at 12:30 PM on Wednesday, September 11th, accompanied by the Quds News Network correspondent HAMZA HAMDAN and the Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent MOHAMMED TURKMAN - where they stayed at the hotel during the period of covering the military operation in Tulkarm - after finishing the coverage that day.
While they were going up to the rooms, they turned on a dim light to see the road ahead of them. When the occupation vehicles passed near the hotel, one of the soldiers spotted the journalists, so he opened fire at them from his military vehicle, despite them wearing full press uniforms, which indicated their journalistic identity.
September 12th. The occupation forces prevented a number of journalists from covering the storming of the city of Tubas in the northern West Bank on Thursday and asked them to stay 500 meters away from the coverage area.
Quds News Network correspondent, journalist MOHAMMED ABED (29 years old), told a researcher at the MADA Center that he went on Thursday to cover the storming of the city of Tubas in the northern West Bank, which has been ongoing for the second day in a row.
At around 1:00 PM, the journalist was attacked by infantry units from the occupation forces, who shouted at him and prevented him from covering the incident. They asked the journalists to move more than 500 meters away from the scene. The soldiers also tried to break the camera of the Al Jazeera crew after the soldier grabbed it from the hand of the photographer BASHIR MASALMA, but the photographer was able to keep it until he left the scene.
Among the journalists present were: Al Jazeera crew, photographer BASHIR MASALMA, reporters WAEL TANNOUS and JIVARA AL-BADRI, Reuters photographer RANEEN SAWAFTA, WAFA correspondent AL-HARITH AL-HASANI, freelance journalist MOHAMMED ATIQ, and freelance journalist MOATH GHANEM.
September 13th. Freelance journalist ABDULLAH OMAR SHAKSHAK (49 years old) was martyred by bullets fired by a Quadcopter drone while he was in the vicinity of the Kuwaiti Hospital, west of Rafah, on Friday.
IBRAHIM SHAKSHAK, the journalist’s brother, told a MADA Center researcher that journalist ABDULLAH went to inspect his house in Rafah city on Friday afternoon, accompanied by a number of family members, when a “Quadcopter” drone followed him and directly targeted him with live bullets while he was near the Kuwaiti hospital, which led to his injury and death. The occupation forces also prevented medical crews from reaching his body.
September 13th. The Israeli occupation forces prevented a number of journalists from covering the events in the Jabal Sabih area in the city of Nablus on Friday afternoon, obstructing their work under the pretext that it is a closed military zone.
According to the testimony of the Quds News Network correspondent, ABDULLAH TAYSEER BAHASH (27 years old), to the MADA Center, the journalist was present with a number of journalists: (freelance journalist AYOUB YAMAK, freelance journalist FARES AWDA, freelance journalist NOURIS DIAB, “Ultra Palestine” correspondent, journalist WAHHAJ BANI MUFLIH, journalist MOHAMMED AWAD, and the crew of the “Anatolia Turkish Agency” ISSAM RIMAWI and HISHAM ABU SHAQRA) at exactly 12:40 PM on Friday to cover the storming of the “Jabal Sabih” area, south of the town of “Beita” in Nablus. During the coverage, one of the soldiers clearly threatened the journalist ABDULLAH BAHASH with shooting at him, and one of the soldiers waved a paper in front of the journalists stating that it was a closed military zone and asked them to withdraw from the area.
September 13th. Halhul Governmental Hospital security prevented the Al Jazeera crew from entering the hospital to cover the army's storming of it at dawn on Friday, and also prevented them from obtaining camera footage of the storming.
Al Jazeera cameraman AHMED AMRO told a MADA Center researcher that the Al Jazeera crew in the southern West Bank, consisting of correspondent MONTASER NASSAR and cameraman AHMED AMRO, arrived at the government hospital in the city of Halhul, north of the Hebron Governorate, at around 1:00 AM on Friday to cover the occupation forces’ storming of the hospital and arresting one of the wounded there.
As soon as the crew arrived at the gate leading to the hospital’s outer courtyard, they were stopped by a member of the hospital’s private security company who informed them that filming was prohibited in the hospital. He also informed them that they should not enter the crew’s car into the hospital’s outer courtyard. The crew members tried to speak with the security personnel to no avail. The crew asked the security personnel to give them the camera recording to see what happened inside the hospital. After waiting for about an hour, the security personnel informed the crew that there was no filming inside the hospital.
September 15th. The Israeli occupation forces prevented the Roya TV crew from covering the events marking the Prophet’s birthday in the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque, under the pretext of the deployment of soldiers and military checkpoints on Sunday morning.
According to the statement of Roya TV correspondent in the southern region, MOHAMMED AL-ADAM, to MADA Center, the satellite channel crew, consisting of journalist AL-ADAM and photographer SHADI ZAMAARA, arrived at the military checkpoint leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron to cover the event commemorating the birth of the Prophet.
Upon the crew's arrival, the circular gate was closed, and the soldiers had opened another passage for citizens to enter. When the two journalists entered, one of the female soldiers in the military cabin shouted at them and followed them with another soldier. She informed them that cameras were not allowed into the place. After some arguing, an officer arrived and informed them that they were allowed to bring cameras in but not to film at all, claiming that there was an army presence and military checkpoints, and that filming was prohibited. The two journalists stayed in the outer courtyard of the sanctuary for 20 minutes before army forces arrived, closed the courtyard and took everyone out.
September 17th. Al Jazeera Mubasher cameraman AHMED BAKR AL-LOUH was injured on Tuesday morning while covering the shelling that targeted citizens' homes in Block 12 in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Journalist AHMED BAKR AL-LOUH (39 years old) reported that as soon as he received the signal of the bombing of citizens’ homes in Block 12, he headed to the targeted area at around 6:00 AM on Tuesday with the Civil Defense, wearing a press shield with the press badge clearly visible on it, which is known for documenting events. As soon as he arrived at the location, the artillery again bombed a house adjacent to the place where he was with the Civil Defense personnel, where shrapnel and stones flew, causing the journalist to sustain injuries to his right hand and slip on the ground, while a “Quadcopter” aircraft fired directly at them without causing any injuries.
Despite the journalist's injury, he was able to complete his work by filming the martyrs and wounded people left behind by the bombing, and he was treated on the ground by the civil defense ambulance that was accompanying them.
September 17th. The occupation forces arrested the media student at Birzeit University, DUAA MAHMOUD AL-QADI (20 years old), after storming her home in the city of Al-Bireh at dawn on Tuesday.
According to her brother BARAA AL-QADI’s testimony to MADA, a force of occupation soldiers – estimated at about 15 military jeeps – raided the home of student Duaa at around 3:30 AM on Tuesday, broke down the door of the house and forced the family into the living room. The captain asked about DUAA, and after verifying her identity, asked her to go with them and told her that she was under administrative detention.
Duaa got dressed, was allowed to take some clothes with her and the force left the house after about 20 minutes, while the house was not searched or any of Duaa’s belongings or any of the family members’ belongings were confiscated.
The family learned from the lawyer that the administrative detention order was issued for 3 months.
September 17th. On Tuesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the freelance journalist QUTAIBA MOHAMMED OMAR HAMDAN (31 years old) from his home in the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah.
MOHAMMED HAMDAN, the journalist's father, said that large forces of the occupation army stormed QUTAIBA's house at around 4:30 AM on Tuesday, handcuffed him, arrested him at around 4:30 AM, and took him to an unknown location.
QUTAIBA works as a freelance journalist for a number of Palestinian news websites and is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism at Al-Quds University.
September 17th. Journalist MOHAMMED SALEM ABU SHAWQA (24 years old), who works as an editor at Milad News Agency, was martyred at dawn on Tuesday when the occupation warplane bombed his home in Al-Bureij camp.
During his testimony to the researcher of MADA Center, YASSER ABU SHAWQA said that his brother, the martyr MOHAMMED, was martyred after the occupation forces bombed his house in Block 12 in Al-Bureij camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip with a warplane, which led to the house collapsing completely on its residents, killing the journalist, his parents, and more than 30 citizens who were at the scene.
Journalist MOHAMMED remained under the rubble for hours before his body was pulled out in pieces and transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital via ambulance.
YASSER ABU SHAWQA pointed out that his martyred brother MOHAMMED had worked since the first day of the war covering the events of the war on the Gaza Strip. He holds a Palestinian Journalists Syndicate card and is a master's student in journalism and media at the Islamic University.
September 17th. Members of the Palestinian Presidential Guard prevented Al Jazeera Mubasher cameraman, journalist MOHAMMED TURKMAN, from covering the occupation forces’ storming of the city of Al-Bireh and the arrest of ABLA SAADAT, the wife of the imprisoned Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, AHMED SAADAT, at dawn on Tuesday, September 17th, from the city of Al-Bireh.
Photographer MOHAMMED EHMOUD FAYEZ TURKMAN (27 years old) told MADA that he was on the street separating the Palestinian presidential headquarters known as “the Muqata’a” and the house of prisoner SAADAT at 3:00 AM on Tuesday, when a member of the Presidential Guard approached him and told him not to stand on the side of the street where the Muqata’a headquarters is located and not to be close to the Muqata’a headquarters, even though the raid was on the same street and was targeting the house in almost the opposite direction. The photographer complied with the security member’s request and did as he was asked and moved as far away as possible from the side of the street adjacent to the Muqata’a.
Minutes later, the same security officer approached him and asked him who he worked for as a journalist. He told him that he worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher. He was then greatly provoked and asked him to leave the place quickly and not to cover the event. He began to circulate his name via the radio to the rest of the security officers. The journalist moved away from the place where the event was taking place so that he would not be arrested by the presidential guard.
September 18th. The occupation forces assaulted journalist MAHMOUD ZAKARNEH and tried to break his journalistic equipment to prevent him from covering the storming of the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, on Wednesday evening.
According to the testimony of the freelance journalist MAHMOUD NAJI ZAKARNEH (30 years old) to a researcher from the MADA Center, he was the only journalist present near the besieged house in the “ABU AL-RUB” neighborhood in the town of “Qabatiya” south of the city of Jenin when military reinforcements arrived at the vicinity of the besieged house at around one o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday.
When the soldiers started getting off the vehicles, one of them attacked the journalist ZAKARNEH and pushed him towards the wall, and pushed his camera trying to break it and confiscate it, but he managed to stay in control of the camera and hold it in his hands, then the soldier came back again and pushed him and asked him to move away from the place, and while he was leaving the soldiers started shooting in the air to force him to move away from the place.
September 18th. The occupation forces stormed the headquarters of the Palestinian Advertising Company in Al-Fawar refugee camp on Wednesday morning, vandalized some of its equipment, and confiscated a number of printing machines.
The owner of the printing press, IMAD AL-DHAIBA, told a researcher of MADA Center that a force of occupation soldiers, backed by military vehicles and accompanied by a truck equipped with a crane, stormed the Al-Fawar refugee camp south of the city of Hebron at around 10:00 AM on Wednesday.
he soldiers surrounded the shops used by the Palestinian Advertising Company. They breached the company’s door using special tools, after preventing the owner of the printing press from accessing it. The soldiers raided the printing press and began confiscating the printing machines and lifting them using the crane they had in their possession in preparation for confiscating them. The soldiers also moved a number of computers and threw ink tools on the raw materials that were being prepared for printing, which led to their complete destruction.
The soldiers remained inside the printing press for about two hours, and the material losses to the printing press are estimated at hundreds of thousands of shekels. This is the third time that the company’s headquarters has been stormed and its contents confiscated within a short period.
September 19th. On Thursday morning, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the freelance journalist MUJAHID MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAADI (35 years old) from his home in “Harsh Al-Saada” west of the city of Jenin after besieging and storming it.
According to the testimony of his brother AMJAD AL-SAADI, Israeli special forces surrounded his brother MUJAHID’s house at around 2:20 AM on Thursday, and ten minutes later the house was raided, his cell phones were confiscated, and the house was searched during the assault on him.
The soldiers brutally assaulted MUJAHID, who was beaten by several soldiers, one of whom pushed AL-SAADI's wife to the ground when she protested her husband's beating.
The soldiers continued to beat the journalist from the house until he reached the military vehicles in the street. They refused to let him change out of his pajamas and refused to let him wear any shoes on his feet, so he was arrested barefoot.
On September 30th, the occupation court decided to transfer the journalist to administrative detention and issued a 6-month prison sentence against him.
September 19th. The occupation forces targeted a group of journalists by firing live bullets and tear gas canisters at them while they were covering the siege of a house in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, while covering the storming of the town of Qabatiya and the siege of a house there on Thursday.
Quds News Network correspondent, journalist MOHAMMED ABED (29 years old), told MADA Center researcher that he headed to the town of Qabatiya at 12:15 PM on Thursday after receiving news that special forces of the occupation army had stormed the town and surrounded one of the houses in it. At around 12:50 PM, an occupation soldier opened the door of the military jeep and fired a tear gas canister at the journalists who were present on the main street of the town, where journalist Abed was present with the freelance journalist MOHAMMED ATIQ and the Al Jazeera English crew, namely Aziza Nofal, Nidaa Ibrahim, John and OSAMA BUAYTEL.
At around 3:40 PM, Abed then headed to another area opposite the besieged house to complete the coverage. At that moment, the occupation army opened fire on the journalists as they were on the roof of one of the residential buildings. The sound of the bullets was clear on the wall behind which they were taking cover. A large number of journalists were present at the time: the Palestine TV crew, MAHMOUD SAMOUDI and SAKHR ZAWATIEH, the Al-Ghad TV crew, KHALED BADIR and SHADI JARARA’A, the freelance journalist MOHAMMED ATIQ, the freelance journalist AMR MANASRA, the freelance journalist OBADA TAHAINEH, Associated Press photographers MAJDI ISHTIYEH and AREF TUFFAHA, the journalist ZAIN ISHTIYEH, and the journalist NIDAL ISHTIYEH.
At approximately 6:30 PM, the occupation soldiers opened fire at the freelance journalist, MOHAMMED ATIQ, while he was in another area opposite the house, as the occupation army climbed onto the roof of the house in order to evacuate the bodies.
The Al-Arabiya TV crew, journalists AMID SHAHADA and RABIE MOUNIR, Al-Jazeera Mubasher correspondent SHATHA HANAYSHA, journalist MAHMOUD ZAKARNA, and journalist MISHAAL ABU AL-RUB, were also directly targeted while they were on the town’s main street, but they were not harmed.
September 20th. An armed group in the Gaza Strip kidnapped journalist ABDULLAH OMAR AL-SAYED, who works for the Turkish channel TRT, and assaulted him and stole his belongings on Sunday evening.
Journalist ABDULLAH AL-SAYED told MADA Center that while he was in a white taxi that was taking him from Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip to Khan Yunis, he was surprised when the group inside the car, numbering three people with the driver, directly attacked him after they tightly closed the doors and windows of the vehicle, then they brandished a gun at him and beat him.
The armed group asked the journalist to unlock his phone by entering its lock code. After he refused, they beat him, causing bruises on his right and left hands, and forcibly took his iPhone Pro Max, a laptop, a wallet containing a sum of money, a press card, his personal ID, and bank cards.
The gunmen took the journalist to an unknown area in Deir al-Balah and then handed him over to another armed group where he was beaten again amid an attempt to shoot him before he was left alone in danger in light of the shelling and the difficulty of the road where he continued on his way with bruises and a state of fear.
September 21st. Freelance photojournalist YASSER MOHAMMED AL-AGHA (51 years old) was injured on Saturday when a reconnaissance plane bombed the university college building west of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to the testimony of photographer YASSER to a researcher of MADA Center, he was doing his usual work at around 10:30 AM on Saturday when a reconnaissance plane targeted the university building west of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
A powerful explosion occurred as a result of the missile attack, which resulted in the photographer sustaining injuries to his left leg caused by missile shrapnel. He also sustained a fracture in his right leg and was transferred by ambulance to the Kuwaiti field hospital to receive treatment.
Journalist YASSER AL-AGHA pointed out that he is still suffering from the injury and has lost the ability to move due to the fracture, which has affected the continuation of his field journalistic work.
September 22nd. On Sunday morning, the occupation forces raided the office of Al Jazeera Network in the city of Ramallah and confiscated its equipment under a military order issued by the commander of the West Bank region in the occupation army. The forces withdrew after three hours and after closing the office with iron panels.
A large force of occupation soldiers stormed the Al Jazeera network office at around 3:10 AM on Sunday, where they surrounded the City Center building where the office is located in the center of Ramallah, and blew up the main entrance to the building and handed the office manager, WALID AL-OMARI, a decision to close the office for 45 days. The soldiers demanded that all employees evacuate within just 5 minutes.
The occupation forces prevented the office staff from carrying any journalistic equipment, confiscated the camera that was broadcasting live, and informed the soldiers working in the office that all the contents of the office would be confiscated, while the soldiers tore up a large picture on the front of the office of the martyr SHIREEN ABU AKLEH, the Al Jazeera correspondent who was killed by the occupation forces in 2022 while working in the city of Jenin.
The military decision issued by the commander of the West Bank region allowed for an objection within seven days, without any reference to the confiscation of equipment, as the soldiers confiscated the network's journalistic equipment using a large truck.
According to the network's director in Ramallah, WALID AL-OMARI, the soldiers prevented the crew from even leaving in their personal vehicles, and also prevented them from working in the vicinity of the office after it was evacuated. They confiscated the camera that one of the photographers was carrying, and later fired tear gas canisters at them and the rest of the press crews who were there to cover the incident.
The Israeli forces withdrew from the office after 3 and a half hours, after closing it with iron panels.
September 25th. The occupation forces obstructed the work of journalists and press crews and prevented them from covering the military operation launched by the occupation forces on the city of Jenin and its camp on Wednesday evening.
Quds News Network correspondent, journalist MOHAMMED ABED (29 years old), told the field researcher of MADA Center that a number of journalists and media crews were present at around 6:45 PM on Wednesday near Jenin Governmental Hospital to cover the occupation forces’ storming of the city of Jenin and its camp. After the occupation soldiers asked them to retreat, they settled at the entrance to Al-Amal Hospital.
The journalists’ work continued to be obstructed, as one of the soldiers asked the journalists to move away from the area in which they were present, and then pursued them with a military vehicle, trying to run them over during the removal process.
Among the journalists present were: Al-Arabiya TV crew, correspondent AMID SHAHADA and photographer RABIE MOUNIR, Roya TV crew, correspondent HAFETH ABU SABRA and photographer MAHMOUD FAWZY, Al-Jazeera Mubasher correspondent SHATHA HANAYSHEH, Al-Fajr TV correspondent YAZAN HAMAYEL, Palestine TV crew AMNA BILALO and TARIQ ABU ZEID, journalist MISHAAL ABU AL-RUB, freelance journalist MUJAHID NAWAHDA, freelance journalist MAHMOUD ZAKARNEH, and Al-Quds newspaper correspondent ALI SAMOUDI.
September 26th. The occupation soldiers stormed the house of journalist MONTASER NASSAR in the city of Dura, south of the Hebron Governorate, for about an hour. The soldiers searched the house and vandalized the furniture when they confirmed that he was a journalist.
Freelance journalist MONTASER NASSAR reported that the occupation forces stormed his house in the city of Dura, south of the Hebron Governorate, at around 9:00 AM on Thursday, September 26th.
Upon entering the house, the soldier asked the journalist about his work, and as soon as he answered that he worked in journalism, the soldiers spread out in the house and began a search and destruction of the contents of the house, which included destroying the bedroom and some other pieces of furniture, while the soldiers kept the journalist Nassar and his family detained in a room inside the house for about an hour until they withdrew from the house.
September 26th. On Thursday evening, the occupation forces assaulted the freelance journalist SHAHD ABDUL HALIM RAJOUB (23 years old) in the eastern neighborhood of the city of "Dura" in Hebron while she was covering the soldiers' storming of shops and homes there.
Journalist Shahd told MADA Center researcher that she arrived in Dura city at around 1:00 PM to cover the occupation soldiers storming the city and searching the shops and homes of citizens there.
The journalist stopped near a residential building, and one of the soldiers shouted at her, forcing her to step back and run away so that her camera would not be confiscated. However, five soldiers caught up with her, and when the journalist reached a closed road next to the residential building, a soldier attacked her, hit her in the chest with his rifle, and took the camera and her two personal phones from her. The soldiers examined the camera and confiscated the internal holder from it, and searched her phones before returning the camera and the phone.
The journalist returned home suffering from chest pain and visited the doctor who asked her to rest. The next day, her health condition worsened, forcing her to go to the government hospital in the city of Dura, where she underwent X-rays and it was found that she had a severe bruise on her chest, which required her to stay in the hospital overnight to receive treatment.
September 26th. The occupation forces stormed the house of photographer MASHHOUR AL-WAHWAH in the city of Hebron on Thursday morning, searched the house, vandalized some of its contents, and broke the photographer's cameras.
According to the statement of the photographer of the "Wafa" agency, MASHHOUR HASSAN AL-WAHWAH, to MADA Center, a force of occupation soldiers stormed his house at around 6:00 AM on Thursday, searched the house and broke some of its furniture. The force also deliberately broke the photographer's cameras after learning that he was a photojournalist.
The force left after about half an hour without knowing the reason for the raid.
September 27th. The occupation forces targeted the press crews with tear gas and smoke canisters on Friday evening while they were covering the storming of Jabal Sabih in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, on Friday, September 27th.
Palestine Post correspondent MUJAHID MUAWIYA TABANJA (24 years old) told the field researcher of MADA Center that he was with Quds Feed Network correspondent AYOUB YAMAK, freelance journalist SIDQI RAYYAN, and Quds News Network correspondent ABDULLAH BAHASH, at around 1:30 PM on Friday to cover a popular march in the Jabal Sabih area in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, where the occupation forces were present.
At first, the occupation forces fired stun grenades and smoke canisters at the citizens and journalists, and later a tear gas canister was fired directly at the journalists to move away from the place and prevent them from covering the area.
September 30th. Journalist WAFAA ALI AL-ADINI (34 years old), who works for the Day of Palestine Foundation, was martyred at dawn on Monday, as a result of the bombing of her home in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Her brother, ALAA AL-ADINI, told MADA Center researcher that his sister, WAFAA, was martyred in a bombing by an F16 warplane that targeted her house at around 1:45 AM on Monday morning, which led to its destruction and collapse, and her immediate martyrdom, along with her husband and two of her children, as she arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in an ambulance with injuries all over her body.