Dozens of Palestinian journalists staged a sit-in on Monday at the Gaza office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) demanding the release of their colleagues detained in Israeli jails.
The sit-inners who raised banners condemning targeting journalists asked Israel to stop harassing the Palestinian journalists especially in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
Wajih al-Najjar the spokesman of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate accused the Israeli occupation authorities of attempting to silence the voice of Palestinians in the West Bank through closing Palestinian media outlets and arresting their crews.
He pointed out that the number of the Palestinian journalists in the Israeli jails reached 27 some of whom are on hunger strike and suffering tough conditions and harassment by the jailers.
Palestinian journalists are targeted because they report the real image of the Israeli occupation to the outside world he added.
Al-Najjar appealed to the international press institutions to work hard and pressure Israel to release the detained journalists and the rest of the Palestinian detainees accusing them of remaining silent despite the Israeli crimes.
