"The year 2019 did not witness anything concrete and positive at the level of respecting media freedoms in Palestine and putting an end to violations against journalists/media outlets, as the Israeli occupation forces and authorities continued, at great frequency, to commit various types of violations, especially physical assaults, as part of their endeavors to keep the field confined to their narration about their practices and policies towards the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip and West Bank, including the occupied city of Jerusalem. In addition to the violations of the Israeli occupation forces and authorities, the social media companies/networks started playing a major role in such violations. They represent a portal for the suppression of media freedoms and the fight against Palestinian content and narration, according to the vision and standards of the Israeli occupation state that reached understandings in this regard with Facebook Company. This resulted in closing about two hundred news sites, in this year, and a page belonging to Palestinian journalist claiming to «violate the standards of publishing». At the Palestinian level, particularly in the West Bank, the positive atmosphere and the satisfaction that accompanied the announcement of the new Palestinian government headed by Dr. Mohammad Ishtayya, since its inauguration in May 2019, and its commitment to protecting media freedoms, soon disappeared, after several months of tangible decline in the number of violations documented in the West Bank, reaching to almost zero. The decision of Ramallah Magistrate’s Court which ordered the closure of 49 websites according to the Cybercrime Law represents a severe setback to media freedoms. As to Gaza Strip, basically governed by Hamas, the situation there has witnessed an evident increase in the number of violations against media freedoms compared to the previous years, not to mention the lack of concern of the governing official authorities in the Strip in this regard." (Introduction)