The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate confirmed, today, Tuesday, the continued state of chaos and terrorism by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian media without any exception, as part of targeting the Palestinian people in its unjust aggression.

A statement issued by the union’s Freedoms Committee stated that the systematic destruction of media institutions continues by the occupation army, which is now targeting Palestinian printing presses licensed by the Palestinian Ministry of Information and operating in the West Bank.

The statement stated: The Freedoms Committee monitored and documented the occupation’s closure of 8 media printing presses, and the seizure and destruction of their equipment following their storming in the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Al-Bireh, since the start of its comprehensive aggression against our people on the seventh of last October.

The head of the union’s freedoms committee, Muhammad al-Laham, said, “The occupation uses a bandit policy to destroy all media property, steal it, and cause the greatest damage to it,” noting that the occupation forces refused to hand over to the owners of the printing presses any book or document with the printing presses and the contents they seized, in a clear legislation for theft without even a decision from an occupying moot court. It also deliberately destroyed devices and contents.

Al-Laham estimated the value of the losses to the printing presses that were initially targeted by the occupation at about one million US dollars.