Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)

Days after Israel tells journalists it is not responsible for their injury a Palestinian cameraman dies in Gaza. Khaled Hamad is the second media professional to have died since the beginning of Israel’s military offensive on 8 July.

Hamid Shihab, a 30-year-old driver for the Gaza-based press agency Media 24, was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on the night of 9 July 2014.

Journalists and media outlets have found themselves victims of a military operation launched by Israel in the West Bank after the disappearance of three Israeli settlers who, Israel claims, were kidnapped by Hamas.

Palestinian security services assaulted a large group of journalists who were covering a sit-in in Ramallah organised by female Hamas activists against the political detention of Hamas members.

MADA condemns the raid by Israeli forces on the studio where the “Good Morning Jerusalem” program was being filmed. Israeli forces claim the program is not licensed and is inciting dissent against the Israeli occupation.

Israeli soldiers raid publishing company to keep it from distributing Gaza newspapers in West Bank.

Israeli authorities have yet again threatened Wattan TV with closure unless it halts its broadcasting.

As a result of an article she wrote on Hamas soldiers and Gaza’s mosques for the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper on 3 April 2014, Palestinian journalist Orouba Othman now faces legal consequences.