Hebron Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Children play outside a closed store in Hebron in March 2018. Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian photojournalist in the city on June 11. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian freelance photojournalist in the West Bank

June 19, 2018 12:16 PM EDT

Beirut, June 19, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to release Palestinian freelance photojournalist Bilal Hamid al-Taweel or disclose charges against him. Israeli security forces arrested al-Taweel at his home in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on June 11, according to news reports and the regional press freedom group…

Israel and the Palestinian Authority seek to silence the same media outlet

September 5, 2017 5:09 PM EDT

Beirut, September 5, 2017–Israel should allow the al-Hurriya media network and its affiliates to resume work without fear of harassment, and the Palestinian Authority should release Ayman al-Qawasme, the chairman of the same media network, from its custody, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Journalists under fire in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

March 24, 2014 3:40 PM EDT

Multiple journalists have been assaulted, threatened, and censored in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in recent months.

Palestinian journalist released after two years

August 8, 2013 11:49 AM EDT

Israeli authorities released Palestinian journalist Amer Abu Arafa, a correspondent for Shihab News Agency, on August 5, 2013, after holding him in administrative detention for nearly two years, according to news reports.