The Israeli authorities today released Palestinian journalist Naqa Hamed, correspondent of the Iranian television station Press TV, after she was arrested in mid-September at a checkpoint near the West Bank.
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28/09/2026
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Lusa
A reporter, who also has a U.S. nationality, reunited his family after being released from Damon's prison near Haifa, where she was detained since September 14, the Iranian channel reported, which transmitted images of the reunion.
The Military Court of Salem in the city of Jenin, West Bank, ordered the 38 - year - old release of Hamed, who was traveling with at least two camera operators when they were stopped at a checkpoint near Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem.
After searching the imaging equipment, Israeli forces released the cameramen, but detained the journalist, keeping her in custody without formal charges.
Press TV denounced it as “a kidnapping” and spoke of a psychological campaign against Hamed due to its journalistic work on the actions of the Israeli authorities and settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories, such as the raids on the Qalandia checkpoint in the north of the West Bank in early August.
Violence has intensified in the West Bank since the attacks led by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.
Movement restrictions have increased substantially for the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past three years, along with the recording of episodes of almost daily clashes by radical settlers against the local population, which also faces regular raids by the Israeli army.