Prisoners' Club: 32 percent of detainees are held under administrative detention.. The occupation targets journalists as part of a systematic policy.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club confirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities continue an unprecedented escalation in the use of administrative detention, which has transformed since the onset of the genocide against the Gaza Strip into a primary tool for increasing the number of detainees, with its percentage rising to 32 percent of the total number of prisoners in occupation prisons.

The Prisoners Club clarified that during the past two weeks, the occupation has re-arrested dozens of Palestinians administratively, including released prisoners who were freed only a few months ago.

It pointed out that the military courts of the occupation continue to play a central role in entrenching this policy through sham trials, which are entirely based on orders issued by the intelligence agency, exposing the true role of these courts as a tool for providing formal legitimacy to the occupation's decisions.

The club emphasized that the occupation specifically targets journalists in an attempt to assassinate the voice of truth. Recently, it re-arrested journalists Muath Ammarna and Asid Ammarna from Bethlehem and transferred them to administrative detention, where the Israeli intelligence issued an order to detain Muath for four months and Asid for six months; both are released prisoners.

The occupation authorities also renewed the administrative detention of journalist Ali Samoudi from Jenin for an additional four months, raising the number of detained journalists to 54, including 21 under administrative detention.

During a visit by the Prisoners Club to him in "Negev" prison, journalist Ali Samoudi revealed his health and humanitarian suffering, confirming that he has been wearing the same clothes since his transfer a few months ago, and he fell in the "fawra" yard, causing a head injury, in addition to being subjected to abuse and assault during his transfer from "Megiddo" to "Negev," where his glasses were broken.

Samoudi suffers from the effects of an old injury sustained during the assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, in addition to worsening health problems. As for journalist Muath Ammarna, who lost one of his eyes in 2019 due to being shot by the occupation while performing his journalistic work, he still suffers from a bullet lodged in the wall of his brain, along with diabetes and other health issues.

The Prisoners Club confirmed that the targeting of journalists through administrative detention adds to a long series of violations faced by prisoners, including systematic torture, denial of medical treatment, starvation, and physical and psychological assaults, considering this an extension of the policy of assassinating journalists in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing aggression, aimed at obscuring the Palestinian narrative and erasing the truth.

The total number of prisoners in occupation prisons exceeds 11,100 as of early September 2025. The number of those detained administratively is 3,577, including women and children. Since the onset of the genocide, 197 cases of arrest among journalists have been recorded. There are still 54 journalists under arrest, including 49 who were detained since the beginning of the war, and 5 others who were detained prior to it.