Palestinian journalist networks strongly condemned Israel's detention of 41-year-old reporter Muhammad Anwar Muna in a dawn raid on Tuesday. The arrest raises the total number of Palestinian journalists in occupation prisons to 21.

The Palestinian Journalist Support Committee said it "deplored" the arrest of a journalist as he was covering the occupation forces' incursions into Palestinian cities, while the Palestine Media Forum also condemned the "continued targeting of journalists in the West Bank" and the Israeli authorities' serious violations to freedom of press.

Muna has worked as a director for the local radio station Hawa Nablus and a correspondent for the U.K.-based Quds Press Agency, and has spent seven-and-a-half years in occupation prisons.

Muna was one of six people detained overnight in a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus. 

The Palestine Media Forum also called on international organizations dealing with freedom of the press and the protection of journalists to pressure the occupation authorities to release Palestinian journalists.