Ramallah - Together - Mada Center highly appreciates the role of Arab and foreign journalists who stand by our just cause, who are now paying the price for their free speech by restricting them while performing their work in a way that will not undermine their professionalism and determination.
The Center announced its solidarity with the Lebanese media personality Nada Abdel Samad, who was dismissed from the BBC Arabic channel on the grounds of her rejection of the crimes against humanity committed against civilians in the Gaza Strip in a manner that violates the most basic principles of freedom of opinion and expression advocated by these international media institutions.
Mada Center called for an end to the blatant targeting of civilians in the Gaza Strip, including journalists and media institutions, which resulted in a constellation of martyrs of the media movement, the number of whom is still inconsistency. Mada Center also rejects and condemns all forms of violations to which Palestinian journalists are exposed, which will not enable them to stop. Silencing their voices, no matter how broad their scope, and calling for international protection for them.
MADA called for the broadest solidarity with journalist Nada Abdel Samad, who lost her job without any justification other than expressing her opinion and rejecting the criminal practices against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
The center said in its statement, “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 has continued for 31 years in a row, while targeting media institutions is still present on the agenda of the Israeli authorities in the Gaza Strip, and in At the same time, the Israeli authorities continue to restrict journalists in the West Bank and the city of Jerusalem by committing various violations against them, including arresting and detaining them to threaten them and silence their voices, while Arab journalists are subjected to other restrictions, the most recent of which is the dismissal of Lebanese journalist Nada Abdel Samad from the BBC Arabic channel.
He continued, "The occupation forces had arrested, at dawn yesterday, Sunday, three journalists from the town of Birzeit after storming their homes and searching and vandalizing the contents of some of them. They are the journalist Amir Abu Aram, who works for the Al-Irsal network, the freelance journalist Muhammad Ahmed Obaid (Al-Qadoumi), and the journalist Musaab Ibrahim Saeed works in a private production company he owns. It took the journalists Musaab Saeed and Muhammad Obaid (Al-Qadumi) to the “Atara” camp and detained them until the morning, then released them after being beaten and abused and threatening them with the possibility of being arrested again, while the journalist “Abu Aram” was taken to a different direction. Information and his arrest.
He added, "The occupation forces summoned freelance journalist Somaya Jawabra and her husband, journalist Tariq Al-Sarkaji, yesterday, Sunday, for investigation at the Israeli police station in the Ariel camp. As soon as they headed there, journalist Jawabra was arrested, knowing that she was seven months pregnant, while her husband, Tariq, was released."
On Friday, the third of November, the occupation police arrested journalist Hamza Al-Naaji from “Wadi Al-Jouz” in the Old City of Jerusalem and released him hours later on condition of house arrest for five days, while the two journalists with the “Wafa” agency, Muhammad Abu Bakr and Jaafar Sadaqa, were arrested at the “Ain” checkpoint. Sinya", north of Ramallah, and were released after being detained for two and a half hours.
In addition to the arrests, all journalists and media institutions in all regions and cities of the West Bank and East Jerusalem are subjected to all forms of persecution and various violations committed against them, with which the occupation authorities aim to silence them and prevent them from performing their mission, as the occupation authorities stormed three printing presses in the city of Hebron (Ansam, Panorama, Infiniti) and its contents were confiscated and completely closed on Monday morning.
Source: Maan News Agency