107 Israeli Crimes Against Palestinian Journalists
“Israel perpetrated 107 attacks and violations against Palestinian journalist’s rights since the start of 2010” said the secretary general and president of the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate (PJS), Professor Abed Al-Nasser Al-Najjar.
He stated that the Israeli attacks included beating the journalists, breaking their cameras, preventing them from covering events, shooting at them deliberately, arresting and jailing them, fabricating serious charges, fining them, imposing high financial fines before releasing them from detention, declaring the area of work of journalists as military zones, denying them the access to occupied Jerusalem.
Al-Najjar said that the last attack against the Palestinian journalists took place last week, after a number of journalists, among them people from Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya crews went to Ashdod to cover the crime of piracy of the Israeli commandos, in which they abducted the fleet of freedom and all those were on board. He added that the Israeli police have beaten up the Palestinian journalists and that they allowed dozens of armed extremist settlers to assault them and damage their cameras.
Al-Najjar added that a number of the journalists who went to Ashdod are Israeli citizens from occupied Jerusalem, and that they also hold the so-called (GPO) press card. However, they were attacked with all cruelty and brutality. He said: “The PJS members visited the office Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya in solidarity with them. We heard the full details of what happened in Ashdod and we documented the criminal attack. We submitted an urgent message to the International Federation of Journalist (IFJ) and to Makram Mohammad Ahmad, the secretary general of the Arab Federation of Journalists (AFJ), demanding them to take a firm stand against the Israeli crimes”.
Al-Najjar clarified that the PJS had asked the AJU to call their members for an emergency meeting in which they could discuss the possibility of filing complaints at the international courts against Israel.
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