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August 29, 2025 – Palestine –
A rights group has revealed a sharp uptick in the detention of Palestinian journalists by Israeli occupation forces, underscoring deepening restrictions on press freedom amid escalating conflict. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), as of August 29, 2025, a total of 55 Palestinian journalists are currently held in Israeli prisons. Among them, 50 were arrested since the onset of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, including one female journalist.
Further clarifying the detention landscape, a July 2, 2025, report by PPS noted that 22 of those journalists are being held under administrative detention—a legal mechanism that allows individuals to be detained without charge or trial, often based on undisclosed evidence. PPS added that detained journalists are routinely subjected to a range of human rights abuses, including torture, beatings, starvation, medical neglect, humiliation, and collective punishment.
This crackdown occurs against a backdrop of broader suppression of media freedoms—including arbitrary arrests, legal harassment under vague charges like “incitement,” censorship, and the lethal targeting of journalists in Gaza—resulting in what has become the deadliest conflict for media workers worldwide.
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Rights group: 55 Palestinian journalists detained in Israeli occupation prisons
