Ramallah - Saba:
Palestinian prisoners' institutions have stated that the Israeli enemy regime continues to target Palestinian journalists through a systematic policy of arrest and killing since the beginning of the ongoing genocide and comprehensive aggression, and continues to terrorize them using all means.
The prisoners' institutions (the Commission of Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) stated in a statement issued today, Saturday, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (May 3), that this period is the bloodiest in the history of Palestinian journalism.
According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, more than 200 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the genocide, while the prisoners' institutions have recorded approximately (180) cases of arrest and detention among their ranks since the genocide. The enemy continues to detain (49) of them to this day, only those arrested after the genocide, in addition to (6) others who the occupation continues to detain before the genocide.
They added, "Targeting Palestinian journalists has been, and continues to be, the most prominent policy pursued by the enemy throughout its history. This is in addition to the assassinations it has pursued, which have escalated to an unprecedented level."
The organizations indicated that the enemy continues to impose the crime of enforced disappearance against journalists (Nidal al-Wahidi and Haitham Abdul Wahid). Since October 7, 2023, the occupation has refused to disclose their fate.
The organizations added that among the detained journalists, (19) are under administrative detention, which constitutes the most prominent crime the occupation has escalated after the genocide, affecting thousands of Palestinians in an ongoing attempt to impose greater control and censorship.
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