Today, Monday, the Committee to Support Journalists called on all international organizations concerned with freedom of opinion and expression to intervene to stop the arbitrary measures of the Israeli occupation to renew the administrative detention of Palestinian journalists.
Yesterday, the occupation authorities renewed the administrative detention for the second time, for the journalist and activist Bushra Jamal Al-Tawil (28 years), from Al-Bireh for a period of (4 months) on the eve of the celebration of International Women´s Day.
On November 19, 2020, the occupation authorities issued a decision of long-term administrative detention for a period of 4 months, after being arrested on the ninth of the same month at a pilot checkpoint on the "Yitzhar" road, south of Nablus.
The committee expressed its condemnation and denunciation of the increase in the arrests and the extension of the Israeli arrests that men and women are subjected to.
She indicated that the occupation authorities have renewed and confirmed the arrest of (7) journalists since the beginning of the current year 2021.
The committee saw this as an explicit violation of press freedoms, stressing that a serious pause must be taken by all international organizations concerned with freedom of opinion and expression to stop these arbitrary measures.
It called on human and human rights institutions to intervene to stop the policy of renewing administrative detention against journalists detained in the occupation prisons, whose number exceeded (5) administrative detainees, including the "long" media, and to release all journalists and activists who are arrested by the occupation politically without legal justification.
And she stressed the need for the International Federation of Journalists and other defenders of freedom of the press to move to stand by the Palestinian media, 25 of whom are in the darkness of Israeli cells, and to work with all means to release them.
