RAMALLAH, May 8, 2025 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities issued an administrative detention order against journalist Ali al-Samoudi, 58, from Jenin for a period of six months.

This brings the number of journalists administratively detained in occupation prisons to 20. These journalists are among the 50 journalists the occupation continues to detain since the beginning of the war of genocide.

A joint statement issued by the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestine Prisoners Society (PPS) on Thursday clarified that this figure only includes those detained after the war of genocide.

It should be noted that there are 6 journalists detained before the start of the war on October 7, 2023.

The Commission and the PPS added that journalist al-Samoudi was subjected to abuse following his detention on April 29.

He was initially detained in a military barracks in Jenin, then transferred to the Jalameh detention center and later to Megiddo prison, where he is currently being held.

The two institutions noted that Al-Samoudi's detention and transfer to administrative detention comes amid the occupation's continued escalation of targeting journalists through arrests, specifically through the systematic policy of administrative detention, which constitutes the most prominent crime that has seen a historical shift since the genocide, or through arrests based on what the occupation claims is "incitement."

The Commission and the PPS hold the occupation responsible for the life and fate of journalist Al-Samoudi, who suffers from numerous health problems and previous injuries, especially with his continued detention in Megiddo Prison, a site of systematic medical crimes, along with numerous other systematic crimes that have been a central cause of the deaths of many prisoners and detainees.

K.T