The world celebrates the Universal Declaration of Human rights and Israel continued its violations of freedoms in the Palestinian territories
the Israeli occupation forces have escalated its assaults on journalists and Palestinian media organizations, which amounted to seven violations since the beginning of this month, which are :raided the house Yusri al-Jamal photographer REUTERS in the city of Hebron this morning, preventing Egyptian newspapers and magazines from entering the Gaza Strip, the arrest of director of Radio Seraj Abdel Jabbar Abu Sneineh and the confiscation of radio broadcasting instruments during the raids on the headquarters of Siraj Radio and the Manbar al-Hureya Radio in the city of Hebron, at the same time in the the 7th of this month, injuring Canal Arabia cmeraman Haitham Umari sound bomb shrapnel by Israeli occupation soldiers during the incursions into Ramallah city of on the fifth of the current month, the issuance of Israeli court a provision on the REUTERS photographer Imad Bernat banning him from entering the village Blain ,which he was covering and documenting the activities of its weekly demonstration anti the building a fence apartheid wall ,the Occupation authorities had had arrested him on 6 / 10 / 2006 and released on bail pending the trial date, in addition to isolation of journalist Jamal Farraj, in a solitary confinement cell in the prison of the Negev, where he is in administrative detention since his arrest by Israeli occupation forces in 1 / 10 / 2004.
What makes increases the gravity of these violations is that it comes at a time when the world celebrates in these days, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the 10th of January 1st 1948), where Article 19 of it (each person has the right to freedom of opinion and expression), Article second (every human being to enjoy all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration), but only by the Israeli occupation authorities have not left any right of declaration without violating it
which proves once again flouting the Charter and all international norms and international charters that guarantee human rights, especially people under foreign occupation.
Mada center expresses its strong condemnation of these Israeli measures and practices, and calls to stop them, and the release of Farrag and Abu Sneineh and all colleagues detained in Israeli prisons and detention camps, and allow the colleague Imad Bernat mobility and freedom of movement.
Mada center stresses that these practices and actions by the Israeli authorities added to the smooth violations of the freedoms of the media in the Palestinian territories, which escalated in the past month, amounting to nine violations, which constitutes a serious infringement of freedom of opinion and expression guaranteed by international laws and norms and international covenants, and stresses the need once again to the need for the international community and human rights organizations, especially working in the defense of journalists to exercise more pressure on the Israeli authorities to stop the attacks on journalists and media institutions Palestinian.