The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) strongly condemns the Israeli occupation forces attack on Quds net news website correspondent and photographer Diala Jwehan, and CNN cameraman Kareem Khadir, yesterday afternoon  8 February 2010 , while they were covering the army’s raiding on Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem. On the other hand Al-Jazeera English photographer Samir Abu Gharbiya was injured by Palestinian youth stone.

According to Jwehan she was covering the confrontations in the camp from a far place, but the Israeli occupation forces fired directly a sound grenade on her, which it exploded on her back. So she lost her consciousness immediately, then she was taken to Almakased hospital in Jerusalem. Jwehan added that she suffered from severe pain in her back, burning in her thigh and a large swelling in her right hand.

Kareem Khadir said that he was covering with other journalists in the camp, where the Israeli army wanted to prevent them from covering, so they fired voice bomb on them and he was wounded by its shrapnel on his ankle and his left hand, where he suffered from acute pain. Khadir added that after ten minutes, the soldiers have fired rubber bullets on them and one of the bullets rebounded from the wall to his hand, causing a large swelling in it.

Samir Abu Gharbiya said: “when I was in the field to cover the confrontation in the camp, I was injured slightly in my head from a stone thrown by a Palestinian youth."

By the way, the clashes broke out between the camp youth and the occupation forces, resulting in the injury of many young people with different wounds, and dozens of people were arrested in the camp.

MADA reaffirms its previous demands to end all the attacks on Palestinian journalists, and it calls upon the international community to exercise real pressure on Israel to stop its continuing attacks on journalists, especially in the Jerusalem area.