Journalist Mujahid Bani Muflih transferred to administrative detention for four months.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Club stated that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to escalate their targeting of journalists through the crime of arbitrary administrative detention, under the pretext of a "secret file." The number of journalists under administrative detention has risen to 23, after journalist Mujahid Bani Mufleh from Nablus was transferred to administrative detention for a period of four months. They are among 54 journalists who continue to be detained by the occupation, including 50 journalists who have been arrested since the beginning of the war of extermination.

The Prisoners' Club added that, in addition to transferring journalist Bani Mufleh to administrative detention, the occupation also renewed the administrative detention of journalist Samer Khuwaira from Nablus for three months. This is the second order issued against him since his arrest on April 10, 2025.

The club noted that the number of journalists arrested and detained since the beginning of the genocide has reached 193, the most recent of whom was journalist Nasser Al-Lahham from Bethlehem. This figure refers to the number of arrests—those who were detained and kept in detention by the occupation, as well as those who were subsequently released.

The Prisoners' Club reiterated that the occupation, through its detention of journalists, seeks to silence their voices in the face of the horrific crimes it is committing, to target the Palestinian narrative, and to impose further censorship and control over their work. Here, we again highlight the case of journalist Nidal Abu Akar from Bethlehem, one of the longest-serving administrative detainees. The occupation has been holding him since August 1, 2022, noting that he had previously spent nearly 20 years in Israeli prisons, most of which were under administrative detention.

The Prisoners' Club emphasized that the occupation's policy of arresting journalists is not the only one pursued to silence them and deprive them of their right to freedom of opinion and expression. It also continues to target them through systematic assassinations as part of its war of extermination in Gaza. It also continues to detain many of them on the basis of what it claims is "incitement" via social media and the media, which in essence constitutes another form of administrative detention. The majority of those arrested on the basis of "incitement" were subsequently transferred to administrative detention after the occupation was unable to present an indictment against them.

Journalists detained in the occupation's prisons and camps face all the same violations as prisoners, including systematic torture, severe beatings, starvation, and medical neglect, in addition to ongoing humiliation and abuse. They are also subjected to policies of deprivation and theft, and are held in harsh and degrading detention conditions.

It's worth noting that the number of administrative detainees in Israeli prisons has reached its highest level in history, reaching 3,629 detainees by the beginning of July. This number exceeds the number of detainees and prisoners under arrest and those convicted, as well as those the occupation classifies as "illegal combatants."