On June 23, 2025, Israeli forces arrested Palestinian photographer Ahmed Al-Khatib, 38, who works for Al-Madina TV, a private media outlet based in Nablus, and the Lebanon-based news agency U News, from his home in the town of Beitunia, near Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
Al Khatib’s wife, Ersal Shrouf, told CPJ that Israeli forces raided their home at dawn and arrested him.
“He is currently being detained in the Israeli Huwara camp, south of Nablus,” she said. “He called us from the Israeli occupation police station on the morning of Wednesday, June 25, 2025, for two minutes, and told us that he expected to be transferred to administrative detention because he had not committed any offense.”
On July 1, 2025, an Israeli court sentenced Al-Khatib to six months in administrative detention. Shrouf, who has four children with Al-Khatib, said his prison term stretches from the day of his arrest to the end of December 2025. A lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club told her that no attorney has visited him to date.
“It is possible that his place of detention has changed,” Shrouf said, “and we do not know anything about him because communicating with him is difficult and information is scarce.”