On Saturday, the Israeli army stormed the home of Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoudi (59 years old) in the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, and demanded that his family hand him over.
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an Israeli army force stormed Al-Samoudi’s house, assaulted his son, and demanded that the family hand him over within an hour.
The sources indicated that Al-Samoudi was not present at the house at the time of the raid, and it is currently unknown whether he will surrender himself to the Israeli army or not.
Israeli forces had previously detained Al-Samoudi for a full year, during which he was held in administrative detention, and released him on April 30th.
At that time, Al-Samoudi emerged in a different form as a result of severe weight loss, which he attributed to the starvation policies inside Israeli prisons, in addition to his exposure to torture, abuse, and deprivation of basic rights, as well as his frequent transfer between prisons and the assaults that accompanied that.
On Thursday, Israel arrested Palestinian journalists Sabri Musa Jibril and Muath Amarneh after raiding their home in the Bethlehem governorate in the southern West Bank.
Palestinian journalists are subjected to continuous attacks and violations by the Israeli authorities.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate documented 84 violations against journalists during last August, committed by Israeli forces and settlers, including the death of a journalist inside prisons and the injury of another by gunfire.
This came in a statement issued by the union’s Freedoms Committee on Tuesday, in which it said that journalists were subjected to a “wide range” of violations and attacks, including the direct targeting of media crews, obstructing their work, detaining and arresting journalists, as well as targeting their equipment and journalistic materials.
The committee considered these attacks to be part of a “systematic policy aimed at restricting the freedom of journalistic work, preventing the transmission of truth and the documentation of crimes and violations committed against the Palestinian people.”
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