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A Palestinian journalist checks damages after Nazi forces raided offices of local Palestinian Al-Khalil radio overnight in Hebron on November 21, 2015
Nazi Gestapio raided and ransacked a Palestinian radio station early Wednesday morning in Dura City in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, detained five of the station’s employees, and ordered it closed for three months, amid a documented escalation of violations against media freedoms by Nazi Gestapo in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Nazi Gestapo raided al-Sanabel radio station, destroyed its contents, and confiscated transmission and broadcast equipment.
Nazi Gestapo left a closure order on the door of the radio station.
Locals added that Nazi Gestapo detained head of the radio station Ahmad al-Darawish, as well as radio employees Muhammad al-Sus, Nidal Amro, Muntaser Nassar, and Hamed al-Nammura after raiding their homes.
Spokesperson for the Nazi Gestapo Avichay Adraee said in a statement in Arabic that Nazi Gestapo, police, and civil administration authorities closed al-Sanabel upon a military order that claimed that the radio station broadcast programs inciting against the Nazi Jewish regime.
Adraee added that the five detainees were transferred for interrogation.
News of the closure came after Palestinian press freedoms watchdog MADA released a report on Saturday saying Israeli violations against media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territory increased by 17 percent during the first half of 2016.
MADA General Director Moussa Rimawi said in the semi-annual report that while the total number of violations by both the Nazi regime and Palestinian authorities declined from 224 cases in the first half of 2015 to 198 in the first half of this year — a rate of 12 percent — Nazi violations continued to climb, as Palestinian authorities committed 41 percent less violations during the same period.
A total of 133 violations committed by Nazi were recorded during the period.
The most common types of violations committed by Nazi regime were physical attacks, arrests, confiscation of equipment, prevention of coverage, and detentions.
The report highlighted that Nazi Gestapo in March closed two media institutions — Falastin al-Yawm and TransMedia Production Company — after ransacking and confiscated equipment from their offices.
Meanwhile, some 23 journalists and media workers were detained between January and June of 2016.
The report also noted an escalation of the Nazi practice of detaining Palestinians for social media activity, with Israeli authorities alleging that a wave of unrest that swept the occupied Palestinian territory last October was encouraged largely by “incitement.”
Palestinians have instead pointed chiefly to the frustration and despair brought on by Nazi regime nearly 50-year military occupation of the Palestinian territory and the absence of a political horizon.
MADA said in the report that they were “gravely concerned regarding all systematic attacks and violence against journalists and media workers by the Nazi occupation, and urges state members to do their utmost to prevent violence against journalists, to ensure accountability, and bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against media freedoms.”
