The Prisoners' Club said that the occupation authorities continue to escalate the policy of arresting journalists, in addition to threats, field attacks, detention and ongoing prosecution, in light of the continuing war of extermination against our people in Gaza.

The number of arrests among journalists since the start of the genocide war has reached about 80, as the Israeli occupation continued to detain 49 of them, the last of whom was Bilal Al-Taweel from Hebron, and Dr. Mahmoud Fatafta from Hebron, whose detention was extended under the pretext of completing the investigation until 6/9/2024.

The Prisoner Club pointed out that among the detained journalists are four female journalists, namely: (Ikhlas Sawalha, Rula Hassanein, Bushra Al-Taweel, and Asmaa Harish). Three of them are under administrative detention, except for journalist Rula Hassanein, who is detained on charges of what is called “incitement,” noting that the journalist Somaya Jawabrah is still under house arrest, in addition to strict conditions imposed on her.

While the number of journalists detained from Gaza and subject to enforced disappearance reached (12), the majority of whom were arrested during the widespread aggression launched by the Israeli occupation against Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

The Israeli occupation authorities used the policy of administrative detention under the pretext of the existence of a “secret file,” which affected thousands of citizens after the 7th of October. A tool to impose more control and oversight over journalistic work, and in a continuing attempt to deprive journalists of their right to freedom of opinion and expression and to practice their profession. The number of journalists who were targeted by the occupation with administrative detention after the seventh of October until today (23), when four of them were released, and their detention remains (19) of them.

In addition to the crime of administrative detention, the occupation used detention against the backdrop of so-called (incitement) through the media outlets in which they worked, and social media platforms, which turned from a tool for freedom of opinion and expression into a tool for targeting journalists and Palestinians in general, as the indictments presented against journalists appear on The background of (incitement) is the Israeli occupation’s insistence on prosecuting journalists based on their journalistic work without a legal justification for these arrests. In drafting the terms of what it claims (incitement), the occupation deliberately made them vague, without clear specifications, so that it could use them as a weapon against journalists in particular, and the rest. Palestinians in general, and putting them in prisons.

Journalists detained in the occupation prisons and camps face all the retaliatory and (punitive) measures imposed on prisoners and detainees in general, in addition to torture and humiliation, the policy of starvation and systematic medical crimes, in addition to the ongoing policies of plunder and deprivation against them and their detention in harsh and humiliating detention conditions.

The Prisoner’s Club renews its demand to all international human rights institutions, led by the United Nations, to assume their responsibilities towards the crimes carried out by the occupation against prisoners and detainees, as an aspect of the ongoing genocide against our people, and to put an end to the terrifying state of helplessness that has dominated the image and positions of the international human rights system in the face of the occupation’s crimes. Continuing for decades.