During the first half of this year (2021), a Palestinian media centre declared that it had monitored 384 violations of media freedoms in Palestine.

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms "Mada" (non-governmental) said in a report, the West Bank, including the occupied city of Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip had "a total of 384 violations, compared with 237 violations recorded during the first half of 2020, a rise of 62%."

A total of 253 such attacks had been committed by the Israeli occupation 87 violations were committed by various Palestinian actors, while 43 violations were committed by social media networks.

The most notable Israeli violations include the martyrdom of Al - Aqsa Voice (broadcast from Gaza) broadcaster Yusuf Mohammed Abu Hussein, and two graduates of media colleges in the Gaza Strip, Abdul Hamid Al - Kulk and Mohammad Shaheen, as a result of Israeli bombing during Israel's aggression against the Gaza Strip last May.

During this aggression, Israel destroyed the headquarters of 30 domestic and international media, according to the report.

Regarding violations of social media networks, the report states that most of them were committed by Facebook, which blocked the accounts of many Palestinian journalists and media organizations.

The report said that, since the beginning of the year, the media had committed 43 violations through which pages of Palestinian journalists and media had been closed or blocked for reasons that in most cases had not been specifically clarified.