Daijiworld Media Network - Ramallah

Ramallah, Jan 2: The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate on Thursday reported that Israeli forces arrested 42 Palestinian journalists during 2025, including eight women, across the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem, and areas it referred to as “the 1948 territories.”

In its report, the syndicate accused Israeli authorities of continuing a policy of systematic targeting through arbitrary and administrative detention, physical assault, deportation, seizure of equipment, and forced interrogation. It said these measures aim to “silence coverage and break the national media structure.”

The union’s freedoms committee warned of a “dangerous shift” in arrest practices, including repeated arrests of influential journalists, expanded use of administrative detention without charge, and the application of physical and psychological violence as a deterrent.

The report documented multiple instances of journalists being detained while reporting on military raids, a tactic described as a way to “empty the field of witnesses.” It also noted an increase in raids on journalists’ homes and arrests of family members, which the syndicate said is intended to “break them psychologically and socially.”