🚨 On World Press Freedom Day, the Commission of Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association released a report on the "israeli" occupation's targeting of Palestinian journalists. The prisoner institutions are denouncing the systematic targeting of journalists by the occupation, citing cases of killing, arrest, and forced disappearance as war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute.
The report details:
• Over 260 journalists killed by the IOF.
• Over 240 arrested, with more than 40 currently in custody, including 20 under administrative detention using "secret files."
• Four female journalists currently detained, including Islam Amarna, arrested today from Dheisheh camp in #Bethlehem.
• At least 14 journalists from Gaza remain detained, while Nidal Al-Wahidi and Haitham Abdel Wahed remain forcibly disappeared.
• Journalist Marwan Harzallah was martyred in March 2026 inside "Megiddo" prison due to deliberate medical negligence.
The institutions documented systematic abuse within "israeli" prisons, including physical and psychological torture, sexual violence, and denial of medical care. Released detainees reported severe health consequences:
• Mujahed Bani Mufleh from #Nablus suffered a brain hemorrhage after his release.
• Ali Al-Samoudi from #Jenin lost 60kg during one year of administrative detention.
The occupation continues to enforce house arrest, bans, and threats against journalists in Al-Quds, including Sumaya Jawabreh and Bayan Al-Jabeh, to suppress the Palestinian narrative.
The institutions demand:
• The immediate release of all detained journalists.
• The disclosure of the fate of journalists from Gaza subjected to forced disappearance.
🚨Summary of settler attacks in the West Bank over the past 24 hours:
• A settler attempted to run over a Palestinian woman near Al-Minya village, east of #Bethlehem.
• Settlers uprooted a large number of olive trees in the Wadi Musa area of Turmus Ayya, north of #Ramallah.
• Settlers attempted to block farmers from plowing their lands in the plains of Turmus Ayya.
• Settlers erected a tent near citizens' homes by the Carmelo roundabout near Al-Taybeh village, east of #Ramallah.
• Settlers released livestock in the vicinity of Palestinian homes in Susya village, Masafer Yatta, south of #AlKhalil.
• Settlers stormed Kafr Malik village, northeast of #Ramallah.
• Settlers attacked farmers and blocked access to their lands in the Ghuraba area, northwest of Sinjil village, north of #Ramallah.
• Settlers cut down and uprooted 400 centuries-old olive trees in the lands of Qusra, south of #Nablus.…
📰Israel’s Security Cabinet tightens grip on Judea and Samaria
The Israeli security‑cabinet has taken a series of decisions aimed at consolidating Israeli control over Judea and Samaria, effectively rolling back key elements of the post‑Oslo division of powers.
For the first time since the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority is to be stripped of its authority in security‑related civil functions in areas “A” and “B,” with those responsibilities transferred to Israel’s Civil Administration. The change is framed as a restoration of law and order, but in practice it marks a formal step toward the reintegration of the West Bank into Israel’s internal administrative system.
Civil Administration takes over security‑adjacent rule
The Civil Administration will now oversee the enforcement of law and order, water resources, and matters of “heritage” — that is, archaeological sites, historical monuments, relics, and holy places.
Religious‑rightwing outlet Israel Hayom notes that the cabinet will also lift the secrecy regime surrounding the land registry in Judea and Samaria, abolish the ban on selling land to non‑Arabs, and scrap the requirement to obtain prior approval from the Civil Administration for land transactions. These moves are explicitly designed to enable Jews to buy land in the territories more freely, reviving a logic of settlement‑driven sovereignty.
A Land Acquisition Commission, which previously existed but was later dissolved, will be reestablished, giving institutional backing to this new purchasing‑driven expansion.
Hebron and Bethlehem: the anatomy of annexation‑lite
The decisions also single out Hebron and Bethlehem for special treatment. In Hebron, the registration of businesses and housing is being shifted from the Palestinian‑municipal framework to the Israeli Civil Administration, and the Jewish quarter is to be carved out into a separate municipal entity — a move that further bifurcates the city into two legal and administrative realities.
Similarly, the complex housing the tomb of the matriarch Rachel will be transferred from the Palestinian Authority’s oversight to a dedicated Israeli management body, reinforcing the idea that holy sites linked to the Jewish narrative will fall entirely under Israeli custodianship.
The stated logic: water theft, heritage warfare, and lawlessness
The government argues that the takeover of water‑infrastructure control is a response to the alleged “theft of water on a massive scale” by Palestinians, and the Palestinian Authority’s indifference to the issue. The transfer of heritage‑related authority, it claims, is necessary because Palestinian actors — with the acquiescence or support of the PA — have systematically damaged archaeological sites that “prove the Jewish people’s connection to the Land of Israel.”
From this perspective, the cabinet is not annexing territory in the formal sense, but “reclaiming” what it sees as Jewish sovereignty over land, water, and memory — all under the banner of legality, security, and cultural preservation.
The meta‑message: the end of the Oslo zoning game
By stripping areas “A” and “B” of their original Oslo‑style representation and handing almost every lever of control to the Civil Administration, the cabinet is effectively admitting that the old formula is dead. The question is no longer whether the PA should have some autonomous role; it is whether there will be any meaningful space left for it at all.
So while the language is about “crime,” “water theft,” and “heritage,” the real message to the West Bank is this: the zones of the map are being redrawn, and the map is now drawn from Jerusalem.
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