The Committee issued a statement saying that during that month, 19 Palestinian journalists were shot at, gassed and beaten while they were covering Israel’s crimes in the occupied territories.

During that period, seven journalists were detained or summoned for questioning. Three of them were issued administrative detention orders or had them extended by Israeli authorities.

That rule is used to arrest Palestinians for renewable intervals that typically range from three to six months on the basis of undisclosed evidence, which even the defendant’s lawyer is prohibited from seeing.

Numerous detainees under this measure systematically begin indefinite hunger strikes to denounce their cases and force Israeli authorities to release them.

Palestinians and human rights groups have denounced that the administrative detention violates the due process of law because it allows for no evidence to be brought against prisoners while they are detained for long periods without being charged, tried or sentenced.

The Committee denounced that in July, Israeli forces prevented journalists from covering “occupation violations against citizens in the occupied Palestinian territories” on 25 occasions.

They also prohibited a journalist from traveling and raided the home of Jawed Al-Tamimi, a correspondent for the Wafa news agency.

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