Ramallah – 26th May 2013: The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses its grave concern after an anonymous planted a bomb yesterday in front of the house of Naser Abu Mayala, a crew member of the “A’yn A’la” An Eye On, the Palestinian Public TV program, with a threat letter directed at Abu Mayala and the program presenter the journalist Ruba Al Najar, demanding not to broadcast today’s episode which will shed light on “fortune-tellers and charlatans”. 

Al Najar reported to MADA that an anonymous placed a bag with a bomb inside it, and a threat letter, in front of her coworker’s home Naser Aby Mayala, on the morning of yesterday 25th May 2013. The letter stated: “if you broadcast the episode on Sunday, the bomb will explode next time and target you and your coworker Ruba”. 

Al Najar added that she and her coworker made a formal complaint to the Security Detectives office, which began to carry out the necessary investigations. And today they will file a complaint to the public prosecution. And stressed that today's episode will be broadcasted as usual.

It’s worth mentioning that this is the second threat directed at Al Najar, where on Thursday 9th May 2013 an anonymous uploaded a video on YouTube threatening the journalists with rape then killing her, the threat came after the TV program aired an episode on “The phenomenon of begging for money” in Palestine, which included an investigative report on this subject, and revealed the involvement of persons holding public positions in the case.

MADA emphasizes on the need for the security agencies to prosecute the perpetrators and bring them to justice, as a necessary step to protect the lives of the workers on this program and to deter all who will ever be willing to make such threats to journalists.