{"id":247620,"date":"2026-08-13T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247620\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:42:15","slug":"israel-detains-journalist-in-west-bank-family-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247620\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel detains journalist in West Bank: family, army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israeli forces have detained a Palestinian journalist who has worked for news outlets including AFP, the Israeli military and his family said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Awad, 38, who has shot videos for AFP in the occupied West Bank, was taken from his home near Ramallah on Wednesday and placed in a military vehicle, his wife Iman Shalash said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israeli military in a statement said that Awad was \u201csuspected of advancing terror attacks\u201d and said he operated on behalf of Hamas, without providing evidence or further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His wife denied the allegation that he worked for Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Palestinian Prisoners\u2019 Society, a non-governmental group that advocates for detained Palestinians, said that Awad\u2019s detainment brought to 40 the number of Palestinian journalists held by Israel, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Palestinian Journalists\u2019 Syndicate called Awad\u2019s arrest \u201can extension of the occupation\u2019s systematic policy of targeting Palestinian journalists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is part of \u201ca continuous attempt to silence the voice of the press and obstruct the transmission of the truth\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli forces have detained a Palestinian journalist who has worked for news outlets including AFP, the Israeli military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[559,37,1521],"class_list":["post-247620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-mna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117088494781842517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}