Local and international media organizations have criticized the Palestinian security forces for their role in an attack on journalists during a June 13 demonstration in Ramallah.
The demonstrators, who were calling for the reinstatement of salaries to Gaza's public servants, were brutally attacked by plainclothes officers. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), a Palestinian media watchdog, reported June 14 that at least 17 Palestinian and foreign journalists were among those attacked and prevented from filming the protests in Ramallah.