Ramallah – 1st April 2024. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) announced the findings of the annual report on media freedoms in Palestine during the past year 2023. This came during a press conference held today, Monday, at MADA Center headquarters, where the Chairman of the Board of Directors delivered the conference

Ramallah – 31st March 2024. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) denounces the arrest of journalist AHMED AL-BITAWI on Friday evening from the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank while covering a support march for Gaza Strip. According to a statement by the journalist’s wife to MADA Center, “Journalist

Ramallah – 15th March 2024. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses its great welcome to some United Nations rapporteurs addressing the Israeli authorities to obtain clarifications about their targeting of journalists and Palestinian media institutions with murder, especially the multiple violations that have

Ramallah – March 9th, 2024 - On International Women’s Day, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms “MADA” expresses its deep concern over the difficult and harsh conditions that Palestinian women are going through, which have become deeply rooted since the start of the war on Gaza Strip on the 10th of last October.

Ramallah – Feb. 28th, 2024. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) concluded today, Tuesday, a training course entitled “Protection from Electronic Harassment and Blackmail,” in the city of Ramallah, for Palestinian media journalism students from various Palestinian universities, within the “Protection

Ramallah – Feb. 25th, 2024. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemns the flagrant violations carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities against journalists and media freedoms in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which have continued at a very high and disturbing rate since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip

Ramallah - February 14th, 2024. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms “MADA” condemns the occupation authorities’ persistence in fighting the media in Palestine, as the Israeli occupation government issued a decision to prevent the Qatari Al Jazeera channel from broadcasting in Israel due to its accusation of supporting

Ramallah – Dec. 14th, 2023. With deep emotion and serious pain, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) issues this statement in which it commemorates the first anniversary of the passing of the late Director and Founder of the Center, the well-known journalist and dedicated human rights activist, MR. MUSA AL-RIMAWI, who

Ramallah – November 17th, 2023. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms “MADA” sent a letter to a number of United Nations rapporteurs asking them to take all measures to obtain clarifications from Israel regarding the behavior of the occupation forces in dealing with Palestinian journalists, especially after the

Ramallah – November 6th, 2023. Israeli violations against Palestinian media freedoms have continued to escalate significantly over the past days, as the targeting of journalists by killing and bombing of homes continues for 31 consecutive days, while targeting media institutions is still present on the agenda of the Israeli authorities in the

Ramallah - 11/02/2023. The second day of November 2023 marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, as the United Nations decided on November 2nd, 2013, to consider this day of each year as an International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists around the world. Through this resolution, the United Nations

Ramallah - 10/26/2023 The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemns in the harshest terms the situation over the past weeks, in which the most heinous crimes and violations were committed against civilians in the Gaza Strip, including journalists and workers in media institutions. 26 days of non-stop attacks, during which