A new report from the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has documented 108 separate violations against Palestinian journalists and media personnel committed by Israeli military forces and Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank during the month of July 2026. The syndicate’s Freedom Committee published the findings on Sunday, outlining a wide spectrum of abuses that range from arbitrary short-term detentions and physical assault to coercive interrogation, obstruction of on-the-ground reporting, and the seizure or destruction of professional journalistic equipment. The report details a consistent, escalating pattern of intimidation that has made it increasingly dangerous and difficult for journalists to carry out their core work: documenting Israeli military incursions and settler violence in Palestinian territories. According to the findings, short-term detentions and restrictions on reporting were the most common violations, with 58 confirmed cases recorded in July alone. Of the documented incidents, 11 were direct physical attacks on journalists carried out by settlers, including physical assault, shoving, and death threats. Most of these attacks occurred while reporting teams were covering settler incursions and military operations in other areas of the occupied West Bank. The report also notes 12 separate incidents in which Israeli military forces fired tear gas or flash grenades at groups of working journalists, leaving multiple media workers with respiratory distress and other injuries. Six journalists were beaten, and four others sustained open, bleeding injuries – including shrapnel wounds from ordnance – while covering developments in the Gaza Strip. Two additional journalists were detained, and four more were subjected to interrogation over the content of their reporting. The syndicate also recorded four raids on the private homes and media offices of journalists, one of which resulted in the permanent closure of a local media outlet. Three incidents involved the seizure or destruction of journalistic equipment, two cases involved the deletion of on-site recorded footage, and two more incidents saw journalists forcibly expelled from areas surrounding the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In response to the findings, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has issued an urgent call for international intervention to protect press freedom, demanding that journalists be allowed to carry out their professional work “free from threats, attacks, and prosecution” and holding that all perpetrators of these abuses must be held accountable under international law. The July death toll adds to a sharply rising cumulative total that has already made this period the deadliest on record for journalists operating in the region. Human rights organizations have confirmed that Israeli actions have killed more than 270 journalists since October 2023, as part of a widespread, systematic campaign of arbitrary detention and targeting of press personnel operating in Palestinian territories. Al Jazeera, one of the largest international news outlets covering the conflict, has confirmed that 12 of its own journalists have been killed in Gaza since the launch of Israel’s full military campaign in 2023 – a higher death toll for staff than any other news organization operating in the region. One high-profile recent incident, documented in photojournalism by Agence France-Presse, saw Israeli forces attack a group of journalists with a flash grenade during a military incursion into the Balata Palestinian refugee camp, located east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on June 7, 2026.