🔴 After 1 Year Detention Without Trial or Charge: Occupation Releases Palestinian Journalist Ali Samoudi in Difficult Condition

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society

April 30, 2026 

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – Israeli occupation authorities released Palestinian journalist and administrative detainee Ali Al-Samoudi (59) from Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday, after an arbitrary detention that lasted a full year.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) noted that Samoudi emerged in a completely different physical condition due to severe weight loss, as a result of a systematic starvation policy practiced by the prison system against thousands of prisoners in occupation jails. This was compounded by the abuse and torture he endured, deprivation of basic rights, and repeated transfers accompanied by ongoing assaults against him.

The PPS explained that Samoudi was one of more than 3,530 Palestinian administrative detainees held without trial or charge, and among over 40 journalists currently held by the occupation, including four female journalists. All are facing crimes and policies of extermination and genocide behind bars.

The PPS emphasized that the occupation has continuously targeted journalists through organized and escalating arrest policies aimed at suppressing freedom of opinion and expression, turning it into a field of systematic repression to silence their voices. This comes alongside assassinations that have targeted more than 260 journalists since the beginning of what it described as a genocide, as well as an unprecedented escalation in arrest campaigns compared to previous periods that witnessed uprisings and popular movements.

The PPS renewed its call for the immediate release of all detained journalists in Israeli occupation prisons and for the disclosure of the fate of Gaza journalists who are detained and subjected to enforced disappearance.

The PPS also called on the United Nations and all international institutions to assume their legal and humanitarian responsibilities regarding the crimes committed against prisoners and detainees, urging them to move beyond issuing statements and warning reports, and to take serious action to end the state of incapacity and systematic complicity that allows the continuation of genocide and widespread aggression.