The clamp down on journalists has caused an uproar among other Palestinian journalists and activists who have launched a campaign on social media platforms under the Arabic-language hashtasg #وين_الصحفيين ( ‘where are the journalists’) and #الصحافة_ليست_جريمة ('Journalism is not a crime'), to demand the immediate release of the journalists, and denounce the PA's use of the cybercrime law to repress media freedom.