“Ninety-five percent of Palestinian journalists are not allowed to travel across the West Bank. They are even stopped at roadblocks that regular citizens can pass,” Najjar said. If Israel continued to prevent journalists from traveling freely across the West Bank, Najjar added, the Palestinians would turn to the UN in September or December and request a condemnation of Israel.
But Israel and the PA were not the sole targets of the syndicate’s criticism. Najjar claimed that journalists in the Gaza Strip were being harassed and intimidated by Hamas authorities on a daily basis. Hamas had also shuttered the local offices of the syndicate and banned the distribution of the three official PA dailies, Al-Ayyam, Al-Quds and Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah. http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-journalists-boycott-pa-security/