19 members hindered the work of the security establishment and its ability to impose order and protect the security of the citizen. The customs police apparatus, which provides economic and food security by combating spoiled, smuggled and expired goods as well as settlement products, faced many challenges that hindered its work in protecting the economic and food rights of the Palestinian citizens. This has provided cover for entry of settlement products and other spoiled goods, in addition to the occupation forces detaining and harassing some members of the security forces and members of the customs police, including in Al-Bireh, while they were preventing an attempt to smuggle prohibited goods and stopping their entry into the Palestinian territories12. 6. Violations in Jerusalem The occupation measures in Jerusalem and its suburbs hindered the ministry’s ability to confront the Corona pandemic and prevented it from communicating with citizens under the pretext of undermining the sovereignty of the occupying state. One of the occupation’s attempts to obstruct official Palestinian work in the city was in preventing the Palestinian Authority, civil institutions and voluntary gatherings in the city from protecting and ensuring Palestinian human rights there. The occupation authorities are still closing the Education Office in Jerusalem, which has doubled the efforts made at various levels, as Palestinian students were deprived of regular education, which decreased to less than (15%) compared to education outside of Jerusalem. We note here that the Israeli policies prevented Arab Jerusalem schools from holding distance education, which negatively affected the entire educational process, especially for high school students. 7. Media sector The Israeli occupation authorities have escalated the frequency of their violations against journalists and media freedom. The Ministry of Information monitored (350) violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian journalists in their quest to document events and expose the continuous violations of the occupation against the Palestinian people, their rights and freedoms, in a flagrant violation of UN Security Council Resolution No. (2222) on the protection of journalists. The Israeli occupation also targeted (162) male and (18) female journalists and dozens of press crews, in addition to blocking more than (65) media webpages and accounts affiliated with male and female journalists on social media sites to intimidate journalists from conveying the Palestinian narrative to the world. The Israeli occupation directly and deliberately targeted them, as they were covering events. The violations, which included beatings, threats with weapons and use of dogs to prevent them from media covering, amounted to (92), while arrests and attacks in the occupation prisons amounted to (79) cases13. 12 Correspondence received by ICHR from the Ministry of Interior January 2021 13 Correspondence received by ICHR from the Ministry of Information. February 2021. Executive Summary 2020