The FPA condemns the deliberate targetting of known journalists in Hebron today  in the strongest terms and we call on the heads of the various  Palestinian Authority security forces to clearly instruct their underlings to stay clear of journalists on assignment in the field. Deliberate violence and intimidation against professional journalists carrying out their work anywhere is totally unacceptable.

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