Gaza, ALRAY - The Palestinian Government Media Office(GMO) has recorded 72 violations by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian media personnel over the past month.

In its monthly report, the office’s Documentation Unit reported more than nine cases of the Israeli occupation forces detaining, holding or summoning Palestinian media workers.

Last month, the Israeli occupation authorities handed a Palestinian media activist a two-week order banning her from accessing the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

The report documented assaults by the Israeli occupation army and colonial settlers against 18 media practitioners in the occupied West Bank and the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 and 16 more in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Among them is Palestinian journalist Ashraf Abu Amreh, who was shot with a tear gas canister fired by the Israeli occupation government while covering a popular protest near Gaza’s eastern fence.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army and colonial settlers jointly blocked more than 25 media practitioners from doing their journalistic work.

The Documentation Unit recorded three instances of the Israeli occupation army seizing the ID and press cards of three reporters and one instance of a journalist being threatened at gunpoint.

The report documented two instances of Israeli occupation forces destroying cameras and one instance causing partial damage to a reporter’s vehicle.

As for suppressing Palestinian content online, the Documentation Unit reported more than 13 violations after social media giants, in cahoots with the Israeli occupation, deleted and blocked the accounts of media workers and organisations, including the GMO WhatsApp community, under the pretext of violating their “Community Guidelines”.