The Journalists Syndicate said that the Israeli occupation forces continued their crimes against Palestinian journalists in all the Palestinian territories, in all criminal forms, including killing, wounding, chasing, confiscating, detaining crews, and preventing them from working.

A statement issued by the union’s Freedoms Committee, today, Friday, said that yesterday, Thursday, the occupation aircraft targeted the home of photographer journalist Ahmed Maher Khair al-Din in the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip. His cousin, the journalist Muhammad Khair al-Din, was also martyred, and this morning the specialist in maintaining press cameras was martyred. Abdullah Hammad as a result of the bombing on his house in Deir al-Balah.

On Friday afternoon, the occupation also targeted a group of journalists with tear gas bombs, beatings, abuse, and preventing them from covering the city of Jerusalem while they were covering the occupation forces’ prevention of worshipers from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Wadi al-Joz area. Among them were known as: Diala Johan, Rami Al-Khatib, Nader Baybars, Christine Rinawi, Izzat Jamjoum, Maram Al-Bukhari, and Baraa Abu Ramoz. Ghassan Eid, Fayez Abu Rmeileh, Latifa Abdel Latif, and Jihad Al-Muhtaseb. Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda newspaper correspondent, Diala Jweihan, was subjected to abuse and assault by pushing by the occupation soldiers and expelled from the Bab al-Amoud area despite displaying her International Federation of Journalists card, as the occupation soldiers informed her that she was prevented from being present or photographing.

In the city of Dura, south of Hebron, a group of journalists were subjected to a series of violations and persecution by the occupation army, which assaulted Wafa Agency photographer Mashhour Al-Wahwah, his fellow driver for the agency, Ahmed Qazzaz, and the Palestine TV crew consisting of Jihad Al-Qawasmi, photographer Iyad Al-Hashlamoun, and reporter Farah Abdeen, and detained the Al-Jazeera crew consisting of Reporter Muntaser Nassar and photographer Ahmed Amr beat them and seized press equipment, and the Al-Ghad satellite crew, consisting of reporter Raed Al-Sharif and photographer Jamil Salhab, as the occupation fired bullets at them and prevented them from covering.