The Palestinian Prisoners Club reported that the Israeli occupation forces continue to detain 46 journalists since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, including 16 from the Gaza Strip, in addition to 5 female journalists.

The Prisoners Club stated in a statement issued today, Thursday, that it documented 94 cases of arrest of journalists since October 7, 2023, including two from Gaza who are still subject to enforced disappearance, namely Nidal Al-Wahidi and Haitham Abdul Wahid.

The statement indicated that 16 of the journalists currently in occupation prisons are under administrative detention, which mainly targeted journalists from the West Bank, in addition to a number of others who were arrested on the basis of what the occupation calls incitement, through the media outlets for which they work, or through their accounts on social media platforms.

It is noteworthy that the occupation military court extended last Sunday, for the fifth time, the detention of the colleague at the "Wafa" agency, Rasha Harzallah, until October 13.

On June 2, 2024, the occupation intelligence summoned Harzallah for investigation in the Huwara prison, under the pretext of “incitement,” before she was arrested.

The Prisoners Club stressed that the indictments filed against journalists arrested on the grounds of "incitement" reflect the occupation's insistence on pursuing them based on their work and without any legal justification.

He noted that the occupation deliberately made the terms of what it claims to be "incitement and sympathy" vague and without clear definitions, in order to be able to use them against the Palestinians, and journalists in particular, and throw them in prison.

The Prisoners Club statement said that the occupation continues the assassination of journalists in Gaza as a form of ongoing genocide, and exposes detainees in its prisons to a series of systematic crimes that have escalated in an unprecedented manner since the beginning of the aggression, which include torture, starvation, and medical crimes.