While the humanity will celebrate tomorrow, 10 December, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is an important asset to all human societies, which a lot of them are implementing most of its articles, the Palestinian people still suffers from the yoke of the last occupation on the planet since 1967.
The Palestinian’s human rights are violated every day, especially by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers; also the Palestinian internal divide has led to further deterioration of the human rights situation in West Bank and Gaza since mid-2007.
The Palestinian journalists are facing continuous violations, where the Palestinian Center for development and Media freedoms (MADA) monitored last year 173 violations against freedom of expression, 97 of them were committed by Israeli occupation forces, and the other 76 were committed by Palestinian security services in West bank and Gaza Strip.
According to MADA’s monitoring this year, the number of media freedoms violations this year will be more than 200. This number shows that there is a significant increase in attacks on journalists, which raises more concerns for the safety of journalists and their ability to cover the events.
In this occasion, MADA center renews its calls for respecting freedom of expression and opinion in occupied Palestinian territories, which is guaranteed in article 19 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Palestinian Basic Law. MADA also calls for the immediate release of arrested journalists.
