A total of 584 Israeli violations were monitored by the Palestinian Committee to Support Journalists over 2016 against media freedom.
120 violations against media freedoms were also carried out by Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip according to the monthly report.
The committee called on the international community to work seriously to put an end to press freedom violations in the Palestinian territories and to provide protection for Palestinian journalists.
Most recorded Israeli violations were committed during October 2016 as it marks the first anniversary of the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada while the highest recorded Palestinian violations were reported during May 2016.
Journalists and media outlets faced fierce and wide practices of suppression by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during 2016 the committee pointed out.
The reported Israeli violations include arrests killing harassment ill-treatment brutal attacks raids into printing houses and media outlet searching and confiscating its equipment targeting right of movement and travel ban.
The most prominent violation was the killing of the media student Iyad Sajadia 22 in occupied Jerusalem in March 2016.
The report said that 60 Palestinian journalists were injured during the reported period including four females.
According to the monthly report 138 journalists were either arrested or summoned for investigation over the past year while 87 raids were committed against journalists’ houses and media outlets.
Four media outlets were also closed by the IOF during 2016 while five others were threatened to be closed under incitement pretexts.
