Fatah banned Tel Aviv Tribune from reporting in Jenin governorate.
Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network has condemned an “incitement campaign” launched by Fatah in the occupied West Bank against Tel Aviv Tribune and its journalists, particularly against its correspondent Mohamad Atrash.
The network said in a statement that the “deplorable” campaign was launched because it covered clashes between the Palestinian National Security Forces and Palestinian resistance fighters in Jenin.
This comes after the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, which controls the Palestinian Authority, announced a ban on Tel Aviv Tribune’s operations in Jenin governorate over its coverage of continued raids by security forces in the Palestinian Authority against Palestinian fighters in Jenin.
“The Network has been and remains a platform for Opinion and Other Opinion and professional in its credible and impartial coverage. Tel Aviv Tribune has managed to maintain its professionalism throughout its coverage of events unfolding in Jenin,” the channel said in a statement.
“The voices of the Palestinian resistance and the spokesperson for the Palestinian National Security Forces have always been present on the screens of Tel Aviv Tribune,” the statement continued.
Tel Aviv Tribune went on to point out that such a campaign could expose its correspondents to danger.
“The Network holds Fatah, the Palestinian National Security Forces and relevant Palestinian Authority institutions responsible for any harm that may happen to Mohamad Atrash or any of Tel Aviv Tribune’s journalists in the occupied West Bank. »
Fatah claimed that Tel Aviv Tribune was playing a “dangerous role” in its coverage of the clashes, which were sowing “discord” and infighting between Palestinian factions, according to a statement published Monday by Jordanian newspaper Roya News.
The group also called on Palestinians in the occupied territories to refrain from contact with the network.