The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses
concern about the arrests campaign waged by the Palestinian security
services in the West Bank, particularly against former journalist of Aqsa
Television, and its office director in the West Bank Mohammed Eshtiwi.

Eshtiwi wife said that the Palestinian military intelligence service
arrested her husband yesterday (14 Nov.), they came to his house last
Thursday, but he was visiting the doctor for treatment. He went to their
headquarters in Tulkarem city yesterday, and they arrested him, but he was
released today to receive his brother who will be released from Israeli
jail after three years of imprisonment, and he must return to prison in
Ramallah tomorrow.
The security forces arrested former Aqsa TV cameraman Osaid Amarneh, and
former correspondents Tarek Abu Zeid, A’laa al-Titi over the past week.

The security services had arrested Aqsa TV reporters and photographers
several times in the past three years, after the Government of Dr. Salam
Fayyad, prohibited the work of Aqsa TV in the West Bank, on 16 September
2007, while the dismissed government interior ministry prevented the work
of Palestinian Public TV in the Gaza strip on 4 March 2008.
MADA Center condemns the arrests of journalists and calling for their
cessation and release all detained journalists. MADA considers that
practices a blatant violation of freedom of expression.