Israeli Regime Detains 8 Female Journalists Among 42 Palestinian Media Workers in 2025
According to the International Desk of Webangah News Agency, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has documented the arrest of at least 42 Palestinian journalists, including eight women, by Israeli occupation forces in 2025. The detentions occurred in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and territories occupied since 1948.
The syndicate accused Israeli authorities of continuing a coordinated policy targeting journalists, involving arbitrary administrative detentions, physical assaults, forced deportations, media equipment confiscations, and coercive interrogations. These measures aim to suppress news coverage and weaken Palestinian media infrastructure.
The Freedom Committee of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate warned of a dangerous shift in detention patterns, including targeting influential reporters, repeated arrests of individual journalists, expanded use of administrative detention without charges, and increased physical and psychological violence as deterrent tools.
Dozens of documented cases show journalists being arrested while conducting field assignments or covering military raids – a tactic described by the syndicate as an attempt to eliminate eyewitnesses. The report also notes a rise in home invasions where journalists are arrested in front of their families, a method designed to break reporters’ morale and social standing.
The committee described administrative detention as the most dangerous form of suppression, turning journalists into ‘prisoners of indefinite verdicts’ and constituting a clear violation of international law. The report further documented beatings, dragging on the ground, weapon threats, and unrecovered equipment seizures intended to cripple journalists’ professional capacity.
The syndicate called for immediate intervention by the United Nations and international human rights organizations to investigate and prosecute those responsible for crimes against Palestinian journalists.
