In Lebanon, the car window of Al-Jadeed journalist Riad Kobaissi was smashed while he was filming queues in front of a gas station in Jiyeh (09/08), while two female journalists were victims of smear campaigns: Al-Jadeed's Samar Abu Khalil over a tweet where she supported the resumption of relations between the Lebanese and Syrian governments (09/04) and The Independent Arabia's Sawsan Mhanna over a report critical of Hezbollah leaders (09/18).

Al-Jadeed correspondent Layal Saad was prevented from entering the Baabda Presidential Palace to cover the activities of President Michel Aoun, because she did not use the title “His Excellency” to refer to him during a conversation with her fellow journalists last month (09/16).

In Syria, El-Ekhbariya TV declared that the health of its correspondent, Mohammad Al-Saghir, who is detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces, has deteriorated (09/19). Also, members of the Kurdish Democratic Revolutionary Youth beat Rudaw correspondent Viviane Naaman and her colleague Issa Al-Khalaf, as well as North Pulse media network and VON FM radio photographer and correspondent Shafzan Mahmud and Aso network correspondent Diana Mohammad after breaking the latter's camera (09/24). Masked men burned the Rudaw office in Qamishli with Molotov cocktails (09/28).

The Syrian authorities arrested Al-Madina FM correspondent Wahid Yazbek in Homs (09/29) and the Tartus Department of Education director, journalist Mahmud Ibrahim, and prevented him from filming (09/01). Moreover, Tahrir al-Sham detained citizen journalists Bashar and Mohammad Al-Sheikh in the Idlib countryside (09/04).

In Jordan, several journalists and website publishers started taking escalation measures against the draft amendments suggested by the Media Commission to the online media regulations. They organised a sit-in before the Jordan Press Association in Amman (09/05) with the participation of several members of the syndicate and the websites' coordination committee. They also launched a social media campaign calling for the preservation of freedom of expression and the withdrawal of the suggested reforms. Three days later, they suspended the escalation measures after Minister of State for Information and Communication Sakhr Dudin announced that the current media regulations would be maintained without any amendment.

In the Gaza Strip, the Hamas police assaulted Sawt Al-Watan correspondent Salah Skeik (09/22), while the Hamas-controlled Khan Yunis court postponed the trial of journalist Ihab Fasfus for the third time, on charges of “Internet misuse” (09/16). Also, Facebook shut down Al-Quds Today TV page without giving any reasons (09/22).

In the West Bank, the Israeli forces hit photographer Alaa Badarneh with a bullet in the chest (09/10) and freelance photographer Nidal Al-Natsheh with a stun grenade in the knee (09/09). They also fired four rubber-coated bullets at Khabar 24 correspondent Ashraf Abu Shawish; he was injured in the thigh and leg (09/13). Photographer Nasser Ashtieh was hit with a rubber-coated bullet in the head (09/22) and freelance photographer Youssef Shehadeh with another one in the leg (09/27). The Israeli forces also detained freelance journalist Assem Al-Shinar (09/25) and Al-Hadath cameraman Misaab Shawar for an hour to prevent them from covering unfolding developments (09/07).

Internally, the Nablus court postponed the trial of director Abdul-Rahman Daher until November 30, 2022 (09/27) and the Ramallah court that of Al-Araby Al-Jadeed journalists until November 28 (09/29).

Facebook shut down the accounts of journalists Hafez Abu Sabra over a report (09/20), Moaz Amarneh over an article about Palestinian prisoners (09/22), and Amer Abu Arfeh over a video (09/26).

In the 1948 Territories, the Israeli police beat freelance photographer Ibrahim Al-Sinjlawi and threatened him at gunpoint (09/10). Police officers also arrested Al-Qastal correspondent Ayman Kawarik for three days and prevented him from visiting the Al-Aqsa mosque for a year (09/24), while the Supreme Court postponed the trial of director Mohammad Bakri (09/14). Finally, the Taybeh centre cancelled a scientific lecture organised by Professor Salim Zarubi, fearing that it would address religious issues (09/07).