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<p><em>Ramallah – PNN – The Palestinian Center for  Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) issued its monthly report for  January 2011 documenting violations against journalists and  media   organizations in the Palestinian territories.</em></p>
<p><strong>Israeli Attacks: </strong><br />
According  to MADA report the Israeli military continued their violations against  Palestinian journalists in the past month, with the arrest of columnist  Alaa Rimawi in the town of Beit Rima, north of Ramallah, who is still in  custody until today.</p>
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<p>Israeli  authorities prevented Al-Jazeera net correspondent Awad Rajoub from  traveling through the Karama border crossing, without providing any  justifications.</p>
<p>Quds Net correspondent Diala Jwehan was  attacked with tear gas projectiles thrown by the Israeli soldiers  while  covering clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian youths in the  Batn Alhawa area of Jerusalem; the Israeli army also attacked Palmedia  Agency cameraman Hamza Na’aji while he was covering clashes between  Israeli forces and Palestinian youths in Silwan, Jerusalem.</p>
<p><strong>Palestinian Attacks:</strong></p>
<p>MADA  noted in the report that media freedoms were infringed upon further as a  result of Al-Jazeera’s release of the ‘Palestinian Papers’, beginning  on Sunday the 23rd of January 2011 through their program “Alhasad  Alekhbari”, containing previously unreleased information from  Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.  A group of Palestinian youths  attempted to raid Al-Jazeera’s office in Ramallah, but were intercepted  by Palestinian police.</p>
<p>Four young men, one of whom  was armed raided the Pal Media Agency office in Nablus and destroyed  some of the holdings in the office after Al-Jazeera had rented the Pal  Media studio; unknown persons shot a gun in front of the house Pal Media  manager in Nablus Hassan Altiti. The Preventive Security Service  summoned Al-Jazeera Net correspondent Awad Rajoub and asked him if he  wrote any reports related to the Palestine Papers.</p>
<p>Further  violations in the West Bank: the Preventive Security service detained  Pal Media photographer Ahmed Kilani, after he conducted an interview  with the former Minister of prisoners Wasfi Kabaha, in the city of  Jenin, and arrested the columnist Issam Shawar, who is still in custody  until now, Quds TV correspondent Ahmed Allbeckawi and Pal Media Agency  cameraman Ahmed Gailani, were also detained after they prepared a report  on the cost of living in the area Ya’bud in Jenin.</p>
<p>In  the Gaza Strip, Palestinian police, cursed and detained a group of  journalists and bloggers: Asma’ al-Ghoul, Al Jazeera reporter Nazik Abu  Rahma, director and the blogger Razan Madhoun, blogger Abeer Ayoub, and  blogger Iba’ Reziq,  in the courtyard of the “Aljundi Almajhoul”, while  they were staging a sit-in in solidarity with the Egyptian people.</p>
<p><strong>MADA calls for:</strong></p>
<p>In  the end of the report MADA condemned all violations against  journalists, and praises the Palestinian journalists who continue  covering events in spite of the daily challenges they face. MADA called  on the International community to pressure the Israel to respect freedom  of expression in the Palestinian territories and to be held accountable  for their violations against journalists. MADA also demanded the  Palestinian Security Services in West Bank and Gaza Strip to respect the  Palestinian Basic Law, especially article 19 that guarantees freedom of  expression.</p>
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