LONDON: The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said on Monday that eight journalists were killed and 467 violations were committed against media workers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in the first half of 2026.
The figures were presented at a news conference in Ramallah, where the union accused Israeli forces and settlers of carrying out a systematic campaign against journalists and press freedom.
Mohammed Al-Lahham, head of the syndicate’s Freedoms Committee, said the incidents were part of “a systematic policy aimed at obscuring the media landscape” in the occupied Palestinian territories.
“The targeting of journalists is not a series of isolated incidents, but part of an aggression targeting the right to knowledge and the transmission of truth,” he said.
The report said that more than 41 percent of the violations involved preventing coverage or detaining press crews, with 192 cases classified as direct attempts to restrict media work.
