London 5 April 2002
Israeli troops have thrown stun grenades at a convoy of 25 foreign journalists and consficated some of their identity cards during a confrontation in the West Bank. Read more about Israeli troops attack foreign journalists
12 July 2002
Palestinian freelance photographer Imad Abu Zahra died in Jenin on 12 July 2002 after being seriously wounded by Israeli army gunfire on 11 July. Read more about RSF outraged by death of Palestinian photographer in Jenin
21 January 2002
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns in the strongest terms Israel’s destruction today of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation building in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Read more about Israel destroys Palestinian radio and television building
25 January 2002
In a 24 January 2002 letter to Minister Tzippi Livni, CPJ expressed deep concern about the Government Press Office’s (GPO) failure to renew the accreditation of Palestinian journalists. Read more about CPJ concerned over GPO's failure to renew Palestinian journalists' accreditation
13 March 2002
In a 13 March 2002 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, IPI strongly condemned the Israeli army’s most recent attacks on journalists and media outlets in the city of Ramallah. Read more about IPI condemns Israeli army's attacks on journalists and media outlets in Ramallah
13 March 2002
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned that Israeli forces opened fire on a hotel housing numerous journalists near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Read more about Journalists come under Israeli fire in West Bank hotel
13 March 2002
The International Federation of Journalists today blamed a persistent “failure of discipline and disregard of international law” by the Israeli authorities for the killing of an Italian journalist and the wounding of a French colleague in the Palestinian territories today. Read more about Italian journalist killed, French journalist injured
14 March 2002
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is shocked and saddened by the death of Italian free-lance photographer Raffaele Ciriello, who was killed this morning by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank city of Ramallah, according to press reports and eyewitness testimony. Read more about CPJ mourns Italian photographer killed in West Bank clashes; Egyptian press vehicle shot at
19 March 2002
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today called on Israel to provide a full accounting of a series of incidents in which a journalist was killed and several others were shot at during the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) large-scale military operation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last week. Read more about CPJ urges Israel to investigate shooting death of journalist, other attacks
29 March 2002
On 29 March 2002, RSF protested the shooting of Carlos Handal, a Palestinian television cameraman working for the Egyptian station Nile TV, in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Read more about Palestinian cameraman seriously wounded in Ramallah