The forum of Palestinian journalists strongly denounced the Palestinian authority and the Israeli regime for their restrictions on the freedom of the press in the West Bank and their detention of six journalists in their jails.
"In the prisons of both the PA security apparatuses and the occupation, the suffering of six Palestinian journalists who are being detained with no legal reason is still ongoing, and this is the fruit of the joint suppression of media freedoms and the systematic targeting of journalists, media workers and opinion writers," the forum stated in a press release on Monday.
The forum said that director of Palestine newspaper's office in the West Bank Walid Khaled and Quds Press reporter Mohamed Mona are being held in PA jails, while the other four journalists in Israeli jails are Mohamed Attaj, Sharif Rajoub, Amer Abu Arafa and Mahmoud Issa.
It also expressed its concern about the health status of Khalid and Mona who have been on hunger strike since the first days of their detention.
The forum noted that the PA security forces kidnapped the two journalists a few days later after their release from Israeli jails in the context of their security cooperation with the Israeli occupation forces.
