Arrest of 8 female journalists by the Zionist regime in 2025 – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Anatoly, the Union of Palestinian Journalists announced that the Zionist occupying army has arrested at least 42 Palestinian journalists, including 8 female journalists, in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the territories occupied in 1948 during 2025.

According to this trade union, the occupying authorities have continued the policy of organized targeting against journalists and reporters; A policy that includes arbitrary and administrative arrests, beatings, deportation, confiscation of media equipment and forced interrogations, and is pursued with the aim of silencing news coverage and weakening the national media structure.

The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists Union announced a dangerous change in the pattern of arrests; including focusing on influential journalists, repeatedly arresting a journalist, expanding administrative detention without charge and using physical and psychological violence as a deterrent.

In this report, there are dozens of cases where journalists were arrested while carrying out field missions and covering attacks; According to the union, this action is an attempt to empty the square of witnesses. The increase in raids on journalists’ homes and their arrest in front of their families is also mentioned. The method that is done with the aim of crushing the journalists mentally and socially.

The Freedoms Committee described administrative detention as the most dangerous form of repression; Because it turns the journalist into a “prisoner of the vote without a time limit” and is considered a clear violation of international laws. This report also reported on beatings, dragging on the ground, threats with weapons and confiscation of equipment without returning it, which was done in order to cripple the professional ability of journalists.

In the end, this union asked the United Nations and international human rights organizations to immediately intervene and prosecute the perpetrators and perpetrators of crimes against Palestinian journalists.