On March 23, 2026, Israeli soldiers raided the home of freelance journalist Lama Khater, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron and arrested her.
Her husband, Hazem al-Fakhouri told CPJ that they were not informed of the charges against her and that she was taken to an unknown location. He later found out that Khater was taken to Moscovia Detention Centre in Jerusalem.
On March 30, 2026, an Israeli court ordered Khater to four months of administrative detention.
CPJ emailed the Israeli Defense Forces for comment on Khater’s arrest but did not immediately receive a reply.
Khater was previously arrested in 2018 and 2023. Her testimony from the 2023 arrest was included in the CPJ special report, “We returned from hell,” published in February 2026, which compiles accounts from 58 journalists who reported patterns of abuse, torture and mistreatment against Palestinian journalists in Israeli prisons.