Media Policy Handbook on Palestinian Prisoners

Contents

• Media framework and content policies for covering the prisoners’ issue
• Intensifying media coverage during frequent occasions and escalation
• Media policies on covering prisoners’ hunger strikes
• Employing media dimensions and giving special attention to prisoners from multiple angles
• Covering Palestinian prisoners from the perspective of international and
  humanitarian law
• News sourcing policies and accessing prisoner information
• Dealing with Israeli news sources on the issue of prisoners
• Assessing media usage of terms and expressions when covering news related to prisoners
• Media policies regarding prisoner-related visual productions
• Actively covering and launching campaigns in support of prisoners

Media Policy Handbook on Palestinian Prisoners

A handbook for media professionals, journalists and institutions covering Palestinians under Israeli incarceration.

Media framework and content policies for covering the prisoners’
issue

This guide presents best practices, media frameworks and policies concerning the handling of Palestinian prisoner-related subjects.
While the majority of these policies will be highlighted separately in the following pages, the most critical are:

• Give particular importance to the issue of Palestinian prisoners, and
  dedicate enough space for it within the public sphere through a broad
  range of media outlets and platforms. This encompasses traditional,
  digital and social media. It is also of great importance to sustainably
  promote and create media platforms that disseminate or broadcast
  prisoner-related news and cannot be blocked or removed. The plight of
  Palestinian prisoners needs to be tailored for engagement with unique
  international audiences in their own languages, while taking into
  account the culture and values of each audience, and more relevantly,
  limitations affecting global discourse, and therefore affecting the
  issue at hand.
• Humanize the plight of prisoners and cast light on its humanitarian
  angle, necessary to build engagement, given that this is a focal point
  for the Palestinian cause highly relevant to other larger strategic
  pivots. The humanitarian reality of the issue should not take a back
  seat to numbers and statistics, or cliched symbols without accurately
  touching conditions and circumstances of prisoners. Moreover,
  covering the struggle of prisoners should remain unaffected by the
  Israeli occupation’s news blackout which seeks to suppress free speech
  and information. This requires prioritizing framing and portraying the
  suffering of the prisoner, his sacrifices, rights, feelings, environment,
  family, as well as accentuating the testimonies of ex-detainees
  considered witnesses to the human reality not visible to others. These
  witnesses are de-facto representatives and spokespersons of the
  Palestinian cause.
• Adhere closely to methods of verification and validation when
  dealing with “news sources and information” concerning Palestinian
  prisoners, and pay attention to the accuracy of this information, and
  the importance of documenting it. This is imperative given that the
  Israeli occupation is behind the incidents of arrest and detention, and
  controls the circumstances and flow of information.
• Cover issues of prisoners on the basis of niches, specializations and
  interests of the concerned media outlet; and present them without
  indifference or bias. These two quirks are unfortunately rampant
  within the international media community. This is effectively in
  order to establish a better and more legitimate presence for the issue
  throughout different arenas, alongside engaging in activities such
  as politics, culture, literature, art, etc. It is necessary to engage with
  diverse audiences, and speak to them in their own languages, cultures
  and affiliations. Furthermore, media outlets and figures should
  work on enabling their audiences everywhere to stay updated on
  prisoners’ conditions, maintaining a cumulative sequence of acquired
  information featuring relevant developments, regardless of the media
  blackout policy adopted by Israel.
• Enhance and empower the role of the press and media in obtaining
  statements that shed light on Palestinian prisoners so that journalists
  and news outlets gain opportunities to question officials, public
  figures and representatives of countries and organizations about
  topics related to prisoners through requested quotes or comments,
  or receiving them as guests on television for instance to state their
  opinions and positions.
• Confront news gags and blackouts by making full use of news resources
  and embedded details that can be uncovered about the condition
  of Palestinian prisoners, and further maximizing their utility. Of
  course, this topic encompasses a considerable amount of detail, and
  a significant number of news-worthy stories. This including details
  and stories of the detention and imprisonment of citizens, as well as
  the far-reaching extent of social damage and suffering afflicting them
  and their families during their imprisonment. The information and
  news packages used for this should make use of dynamic storytelling
  methods, engaging photos, illustrations and videos, and should not
  rely on numerical data alone while overlooking the human story. The
  human element is what catalyzes a strong public opinion in favor of
  the issue.
• Use a set of different processes and patterns to present prisoners’
  issues, which should not be dealt with using only one media format,
  such as news reports, investigations, interviews, stories, opinion
  articles, visual materials, infographics, reportage, comics, etc. The
  most important forms of journalism used to achieve this purpose are
  explanatory reporting and solution-focused reporting that seek to find
  solutions to the problems faced by prisoners and their families, and
  investigative and documentary reporting (storytelling) to probe and
  reveal facts, details and dimensions which the Israeli occupation tries
  to hide and block in order to ensure continued secrecy of violations
  committed against prisoners. Overall, these patterns and methods are
  important to engage media and public opinion with the issue.
• Handle the issue of prisoners indirectly, when there is a need to. There
  should be diversified ways for the media to address the issue either
  explicitly or implicitly, and this can be achieved through, for example,
  impliedly merging the issue into a news items and media activities,
  even though they are not directly connected to the issue of the
  prisoners; as with production in literature, movies, art and novels, and
  also by means of shedding light on “prison literature.” This includes
  introducing the literary works and artistic achievements of prisoners,
  or narrating their stories; all of which will contribute to engaging
  untapped audiences and effectively highlighting the humanitarian
  dimension and symbolism of the prisoners’ presence and identities.
• Pay attention to the context of the issue, and include relevant
  background information on events, developments and matters
  pertinent to the issue to help the target audience better understand
  and relate to their circumstances and dimensions. It is also essential
  to look at detention incidents and conditions surrounding them for
  context. Note that it is customary for the Israeli occupation state to
  portray large-scale arrest campaigns against Palestinians as reactions
  to resistance operations, while ignoring the fact that resistance is a
  natural outgrowth to the occupation, its aggression and brutality.
• Avoid the typical media approach to handling the issue, instead taking
  a fresh angle by presenting the emotional details of detention cases.
  This is all the more relevant given that audiences, media professionals
  and journalists have become habituated to news about arrests and
  prisoners, which divert attention from specifics or details that could
  be interesting to audiences in other environments. Accordingly,
  we need to understand and diagnose anew the question of the
  Palestinian prisoners and break its details down into a series of topics
  that can be brought up, focused on and approached from different
  angles—journalistically, politically, legally and publicly. To achieve
  this, it is necessary to break the monotony of news content, breaking
  established patterns in a way that prisoners’ issues can no longer be
  reduced to the normal pattern of coverage and routine follow-ups.
  This extends to producing news content from varied angles and across
  miscellaneous and state-of-the-art media forms. Another important
  point for the media is to not lose track of cumulative news about
  prisoners’ issues or submit to manifestations of seasonal interest in
  detainees’ affairs.
• Strike a balance when covering issues of detained Israeli soldiers
  versus the question of Palestinian prisoners, given that the thousands
  of Palestinians held in Israeli jails may not attract the same attention
  as one Israeli soldier detained by the Palestinian resistance. There
  is therefore, a need to draw a link between the cause of Palestinian
  prisoners’ suffering and that of Israeli soldiers, while publishing
  stories about the extent of their suffering, created by the latter and
  inclusive of those captured by the resistance, when they bomb and
  kill innocents.

Intensifying media coverage during frequent occasions and escalation seasons

• Effective media coverage of the issue of the Palestinian prisoners entails having a posture of anticipatory readiness for typical seasons of escalation, and keeping abreast of the latest developments in this regard. This should be reflected in the area of coverage and editorial priorities given for reporting relevant news items.
• It is important to approach detainees’ affairs in a manner taking into
  account the circumstances and developments of the Palestinian arena,
  such as protest steps, strikes, the nature of escalation seasons, as well
  as periodic and aperiodic occasions, and to further pay attention to
  humanitarian and social aspects during special days and seasons
  where there is intensified global media focus on the issue. An example
  of this would include adopting the Palestinian Prisoners Day, which
  is observed on April 17, as an annual occasion to highlight the issue,
  and bringing up elements with a focus on detained women, wives and
  mothers on the occasion of International Women›s Day, in addition to
  captive children and their families on the occasion of Children›s Day.
• Renew media attention on the issue following developments and
  escalation by ensuring the issue is relevant and alive in media after,
  for instance, a mass hunger strike held by prisoners comes to a
  halt. It is also important to provide coverage on public engagement
  with the issue for it to gain renewed momentum, and avoid apathy.
  Following a decline in the level of pro-prisoner events, journalists
  and media professionals may also embark on shedding light on
  pertinent stories, details or files. To put it even more clearly, when
  focusing on covering facts and the development of events related
  to prisoners during their occurrence, the priority of media coverage,
  after these events subside, should be geared towards relevant
  angles, backgrounds, details and stories.
• It is necessary to maintain a constant media focus on the issue of
  prisoners by renewing and diversifying media and news patterns
  used in coverage for the purpose of suspense, and meeting target
  audience needs of knowing what takes place behind Israel’s news
  blackout veil and prison walls. Moreover, it is necessary to continue
  to elicit interest and public opinion on the issue.
• Prisoner swap deals are significant opportunities to bring to the
  spotlight issues of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. Alongside
  previous notes, this can be achieved by focusing on the fact that
  any exchange deal with the Israeli occupation represents a national
  achievement for the Palestinian people made by the Palestinian
  resistance. Thus, there is a need to present prisoners released in
  these deals as national icons, producing stories about their struggles,
  human experiences, resilience and fortitude. It is imperative to
  further link Palestinian swap deals with similar narratives around
  the world that achieved rights for occupied peoples.

Media policies on covering prisoners’ hunger strikes

• Given that hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners are accorded priority,
  they require a tailored media strategy. It is in the interest of Israeli
  media to utilize “the Palestinian captive movement”, manipulate the
  prisoners’ families, and spread rumors and fake news to weaken popular
  solidarity outside jails. This must be set in the context of developments
  concerning, for instance, the well-being and health of some hunger
  striker, or certain circumstances leading to the martyrdom of a
  detainee. It is crucial to consider the following points when covering
  hunger strikes in Israeli jails:
• Taking escalatory steps in solidarity with prisoners and drawing global
  attention to their issue and their plight as a result of Israeli violations.
• Underlining goals of captives’ hunger strikes and drawing a comparison
  between their demands and rights, as enshrined in international law.
• Discussing the different forms of violations against Palestinian prisoners
  in Israeli jails and reasons that might prompt them to go on hunger
  strikes, such as sudden night raids on cells, and solitary confinement or
  deprivation of visitation rights.
• It is important to confront and counter the misleading propaganda
  messages which Israeli sources spread with the express purpose
  undermining the morale of prisoners, their families or to influence
  solidarity events and the campaigns organized to support them.
• Discussing and disseminating the history of hunger strikes staged by
  the Palestinian captive movement, drawing a comparison between
  them and other international hunger strikes, and highlighting them
  as a means of struggle against the occupation and as a right for the
  Palestinian prisoners.

Employing media dimensions and giving special attention to prisoners from multiple angles

The issue of the prisoners is multifaceted, and hardly monolithic.
Prisoners hail from different ages and occupational groups, and originate from different areas throughout the occupied Palestinian land. For this reason, nuances are essential when presenting the multiple media dimensions of the issue. It is important to take them into consideration during news coverage. The following examples underscore these dimensions:

• The exposure of children and minors to arrest and imprisonment by the Israeli occupational state, which enacts laws to justify such practice.
• The detention of Palestinian lawmakers who were elected democratically by means of the ballot box.
• The arrest campaigns in Occupied Jerusalem and the special status of the Jerusalemite prisoners, who are exposed, along with their families, to considerable pressures and attempts to displace them from their city.
• The detention and imprisonment of mothers with their young children in Israeli jails, and the case of pregnant women finding themselves forced to give birth to their newborn babies in detention under harsh conditions of incarceration.
• The policy of medical neglect adhered to by the Israeli occupation
  against Palestinian prisoners, and the Israeli medical system’s role as party to this policy, including doctors and nurses.
• The detention of scientists, academics and scholars, and the
  importance of highlighting their suffering during their presence in
  captivity and after their release.
• The detention of the elderly and ailing patients and their suffering
  inside prisons, where they are deprived of basic services and needs.
• The administrative detention of citizens with no trail or indictment.
• The torture of detainees in Israeli jails and the impact of their exposure to physical abuse.

Covering Palestinian prisoners from the perspective of international and humanitarian law

• The measures taken by the Israeli occupation authority with regards to the detention and sentencing of Palestinians violates the provisions of the international humanitarian law, which includes several international agreements and declarations, most notably the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the four 1949 Geneva Conventions and many others.
• Detainees in Israeli jails are deemed “prisoners of war” from the
  perspective of international law, and the occupation has been striving
  for many years to have them designated as “security prisoners” in order to evade its responsibilities and obligations [as an occupying power] towards them and to block international efforts to classify its violations against the prisoners as war crimes.
• Here, it is worthy to note that Palestinian prisoners’ most prominent
  legal and humanitarian rights, which should be given special attention to by media outlets interested in covering the issue, and Israeli-
  violated rights are as follows:

The right to human dignity and freedom.

The right to protection against torture.

The prisoners’ right to a defense, receive legal aid and counsel from lawyers and be informed of any charges leveled against them.

The right to a fair trial and standing  before a legally-formed court of law.

The right to serve prison sentences in occupied territories and not inside Israel.

The right to a healthy diet.

The right to communicate with the outside world.

The right to pursue university and a high school education.

The right to receive new garments twice a year.

The right to receive appropriate medical treatment and regular checkups.

The right to go on hunger strike to pressure for demands.

The right to receive regular visits twice a month.

The right to meet with members of the family if they are detained in the same place.

The right to prepare food.

The right to safety and privacy.

The right to practice religious rituals and play sports in places allocated for these purposes.

The right to be released after completing their terms of imprisonment.

The right to obtain freedom as part of any agreement between Palestinians and Israelis.

The right to return home and not be exiled after release.

The right to have access to financial needs and allocations.

The right to keep personal belongings without confiscation.

The right to not be exposed to raids on their cells, physical assaults or tear gas.

The right to not be exposed to strip searches.

The detained martyrs’ right to be returned to their families to receive proper burials according to their religions and traditions.

The right not to be locked up or isolated with criminals.

The right to spend some time every day in prison yards to get fresh air.

The right to human dignity and freedom.      The right to prepare food.

The right to protection against torture.        The right to safety and privacy.

The prisoners’ right to a defense, receive legal aid and counsel from lawyers and be informed of any charges leveled against them. The right to practice religious rituals and play sports in places allocated for these purposes.

قرارات مجلس الأمن

·         القرار رقم 242 لسنة 1967: يدعو إلى انسحاب قوات الاحتلال  من الأراضي التي احتلتها في العام 1967, ويؤكد على عدم جواز الاستيلاء على الأراضي بالحرب.·         القرار رقم 446 لسنة 1979: أكد على عدم شرعية سياسة الاستيطان في الأراضي العربية المحتلة بما فيها القدس. ·         القرار رقم 452 لسنة 1979: يدعو فيه مجلس الأمن سلطات الاحتلال إلى وقف الأنشطة الاستيطانية في الأراضي التي احتلتها في العام 1967 بما فيها القدس. ·         القرار رقم 465 لسنة 1980 : يطالب فيه دولة الاحتلال بوقف الاستيطان، والامتناع عن بناء مستوطنات جديدة، وتفكيك المقامة. ·         القرار رقم 478 لسنة 1980: دعا إلى عدم الاعتراف بـما يسميه الاحتلال “القانون الأساسي”، وهو قرار ضم القدس واعتبارها عاصمة لكيان الاحتلال. ·         القرار 2334 في 23 ديسمبر 2016: قرر إدانة المستوطنات الإسرائيلية، وأن الإجراءات الإسرائيلية تخالف القوانين الدولية الإنسانية وتلك الإجراءات تهدف إلى تغيير التركيبة الديمغرافية ووضع الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة.

قرارات الأمم المتحدة

·         4 تموز 1967: دعوة لاحترام حقوق الإنسان في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة وإلزام الاحتلال بضمان سلامة سكان تلك المناطق وأمنهم.·         20 كانون الأول 1971: مطالبة دولة الاحتلال الإسرائيلي بإلغاء جميع إجراءات ضم أو استيطان الأراضي المحتلة. ·         23 تشرين الثاني 2015: طالبت الأغلبية الساحقة من الدول الأعضاء في الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة دولة الاحتلال بإنهاء احتلالها للأراضي الفلسطينية، وأكد القرار أهمية إنهاء الاحتلال الإسرائيلي للأراضي الفلسطينية منذ 1967، وحق الشعب الفلسطيني في تقرير مصيره. ·         20 كانون الأول 2017: صدر قرار يؤكد حق الفلسطينيين في استغلال مواردهم الطبيعية.

مجلس حقوق الانسان

·         قرر مسترشدا بحق تقرير المصير للشعب الفلسطيني وبعدم جواز الاستيلاء على الأراضي الفلسطينية عن طريق استخدام القوة، على النحو المنصوص عليه في ميثاق الأمم المتحدة، وبقرارات الأمم المتحدة ذات الصلة دعا “اسرائيل” لإنهاء احتلالها لجميع الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة منذ عام 1967، وإلى تحرك دولي لوضع حد فوري للانتهاكات الجسيمة التي ترتكبها في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، وإلى توفير الحماية الدولية الفورية للشعب الفلسطيني في الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة امتثالا للقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان والقانون الإنساني الدولي.

News sourcing policies and accessing prisoner information

Media should rely primarily on a broad range of trustworthy, in-depth and wide-ranging sources with assorted ways and means of approaching and covering the issue of prisoners. Here, we present several determining factors on how to select news sources and resources, in this regard:

• Relying as much as possible on live Palestinian field sources of
  information, attempting to have direct contact with primary sources,
  such as prisoners’ lawyers, their families and defense committees,
  closely monitoring events, facts, trials, and discharges from prisons
  and detention centers, and conducting on-site reporting.
• Obtaining information on detainees’ affairs from the
  competent Palestinian authorities, public bodies and
  commissions, rights and civil societies active in the
  Palestinian arena, and other relevant institutions affiliated
  with Palestinian factions, while paying attention to their
  respective reputations in terms of credibility, reliability,
  quality and competence.
• Trying to not be confined information from solely from international
  news sources and major traditional news agencies about abductions,
  interrogations, trials, detentions, etc.
• Adopting information on prisoners’ issues from international bodies,
  organizations and committees, providing they work independently and
  are free from any directed political influence affecting their work. This
  is in addition to potentially taking relevant information from periodic
  international meetings convened, for instance, by the Geneva-based
  UN Human Rights Council.
• Relying on information from specialized media outlets, known for their
  professional integrity and competence, and their belief in the justice
  of the Palestinian cause and rights, as well as credible sources from
  noted social media pages, provided that fact-checking, verification
  and validation methods are applied when dealing with information
  from these pages.
• Other reliable sources include experts, specialists and researchers
  interested and versed in the issue of the prisoners, and known for
  conducting relevant research studies, writing books and giving special
  statements on the issue, etc. Former prisoners are also a main source
  of information in this regard, and some of them are considered
  specialists in detainees’ affairs.
• Keeping abreast of the latest events, developments, activities, and civil
  as well as public and media efforts made by advocates of the Palestinian
  prisoners’ rights. This includes other supporters both within Palestine
  and abroad, as well as supportive statements, reports, petitions that
  have been issued, and campaigns organized in this regard.

Dealing with Israeli news sources on the issue of prisoners

This guide proposes a set of media policies adding insight and context to global media discourse and content that reflects the reality of Palestinian lives under the yoke of Israel’s aggression and wars. These policies are as follows:

• Israeli occupation forces release periodic reports on their campaigns,
  raids on homes and arrests in Palestinian cities, villages, towns and
  neighborhoods; establishing themselves as a source of information
  for the media on daily arrests and incidents. However, names and
  numbers originating from such reports should be verified, and
  corroborated with other sources. As noted previously, it is important
  to diversify news sources, and avoid relying on information coming
  from Israeli media.
• It is necessary to not surrender to the use of only what is published by
  the Israeli occupation on Palestinian prisoners and detainees, or take
  its news reports for granted and circulate them or part of them without
  taking procedures to verify them, translate relevant information from
  other Hebrew sources, or fact check the Israeli version and narration
  of events, as well as the terminology it uses to describe them. Keen
  news editorial policies are a must to rid coverage from expressions
  and descriptions reflecting Israeli claims.
• Periodically, the Israeli occupation authority and its media outlets
  release news reports that sometimes include claims about conducting
  interrogations with prisoners or certain investigations about them.
  Dealing with such reports requires awareness of the fact that they
  cannot be reliable sources and may contain misleading and unseen
  segments. Therefore, any republication of information mentioned in
  such reports needs extensive editorial review.
• When thinking about quoting remarks or texts from Israeli news
  sources, some terminologies need to be replaced through direct
  translation or editing. For instance, instead of using ‘Israeli defense
  forces’ (IDF), journalists should use Israeli occupation forces (IOF), or
  add descriptive information in parentheses to avoid normalizing the
  use of these expressions and terms. However, it is advisable to convey
  the general meaning of any text and avoid verbatim quotation.

Assessing media usage of terms and expressions when covering news related to prisoners

• News items regarding the issue of Palestinian prisoners should not contain misleading and offensive terms and expressions— often fabricated by the Israeli occupation state and its propaganda machine—but rather alternative words and phrases supporting the issue. For example, phrases such as ‘terror act’, ‘terror groups’, ‘security prisoner’, and ‘civil administration’ should be replaced, respectively, by: ‘resistance operation’, ‘resistance factions’, ‘detainee’, and the
  ‘occupation authority’ or the ‘occupation army’.
• Journalists and media professionals should also avoid using terminology
  and expressions that would normalize the general sentiment towards
  Israel as an occupying power, such as ‘defense forces’, ‘police forces’,
  ‘arrest’, and ‘prisoners’, rather using accurate alternatives such as
  ‘occupation forces’, ‘occupation police’, ‘kidnapping’ or ‘detaining’,
  and ‘prisoners of war’ or ‘detainees’.
• It is important to avoid the use of Israeli fabricated names for
  Palestinian areas and sites, and if necessary, the original names of
  places can be placed next to the Israeli ones. Some examples are
  Judea and Samaria (West Bank), Samaria (North of the West Bank),
  and security wall (separation, segregation or apartheid wall).
• Media outlets can play an important role, when covering prisoner-
  related news, in finding suitable alternatives for inappropriate Israeliwords, phrases and expressions and further cementing their use.
  These alternatives can also be used as supplementary or explanatory
  information, as in the case of ‘administrative detention’ (imprisonment
  with no trial or indictment).

Media policies regarding prisoner-related visual productions

The scarcity of visual material is one of the most prominent difficulties facing the media when covering and reporting news about prisoners and detainees, and this is mainly due to the news blackout imposed by the Israeli occupation authority on incarceration conditions of prisoners and the severe restrictions on taking photographs of prisoners in jails. Therefore, several points should be considered when dealing with visual items. These include:

• It is necessary to seek professional help to create visual productions
  in support of prisoners, especially short films, documentaries, and
  comic books.
• Media should be keen on verifying the authenticity of pictures and
  footage circulated by Israeli occupation for prisoners and hunger
  strikers in its jails, and ensuring they are not fake before using them,
  and further not adhering to the context surrounding those visual
  packages. It is also important to pay attention to the credibility of
  images and videos posted on social media pages, in accordance with
  the standards of digital verification.
• Media should carefully choose pictures and footage that accurately and
  honestly reflect the situation and suffering of Palestinian prisoners in
  Israeli jails, ranging from violations and harsh conditions in captivity,
  while appending explanatory notes or information to these visuals,
  and further consulting ex-detainees about their authenticity.
• It is necessary to search for and make use of creative art to highlight
  conditions of incarceration in Israeli jails to overcome the scarcity
  of prisoner-related visual items. It is also advisable to make use of
  drawings and paintings that can be found in libraries of a number of
  Palestinian prisoner rights institutions.
• Infographics, which are graphic visual representations of information,
  are important tools that can be used to easily and clearly present
  facts as well as documentary and statistical data on the issue of
  the Palestinian prisoners. It is important to strike a balance, when
  using infographics, by focusing on the humanitarian and emotional
  aspects of the issue, in order to avoid reducing prisoners to statistics,
  by including personal stories and symbolic dimensions, and further
  embedding faces, names and illustrated content.

Actively covering and launching campaigns in support of prisoners

Concerned journalists and media outlets should pay attention to and focus on covering media campaigns that advocate the issue of Palestinian prisoners. The following are some ideas on achieving this:

• Deciding on certain days and hours to launch live TV coverage
  on the issue by means of different satellite channels, especially
  during relevant developments and seasons, and further exchanging
  information and material related to the issue of prisoners between
  producers, concerned parties and media outlets.
• Displaying social media hashtags on TV screens and via new media
  outlets related to pro-prisoner events, seasons and campaigns.
• Providing a spatial and temporal space on a TV or website to display
  advertisements in support of prisoners, as a voluntary contribution by
  the media outlet.
• The participation of journalists and active media figures in pro-prisoner
  campaigns and events through social media, and rebroadcasting
  relevant programs.
• Working on establishing media support services and multiple
  partnerships between different media outlets, civil society
  organizations and Palestinian parties to support the issue of prisoners.
• Providing rights activists and ex-detainees with the opportunity to
  receive training and qualify themselves in media so as to enable them
  to play a role in supporting the issue of prisoners.
• Promoting specialized training for journalists and media professionals
  in the field of detainees’ affairs, and hosting concerned parties,
  training activities and workshops.
• Creating professional and oriented cooperation, and exchanging
  information and material on the issue of prisoners with Palestinian
  media outlets in general and those interested in detainees’ affairs in
  particular.