On September 26, 2025, Israeli forces re-arrested Palestinian journalist Mohammed Anwar Muna of Sanad News Agency, during a raid on his home in the village of Zawata, west of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
His family told CPJ they were not informed of where he was being taken or the legal basis for his arrest.
In March 2026, CPJ contacted the family again, and they said that he is held under an administrative detention order that has been renewed twice for six months each. The family said that he is currently held in Kitziot/Negev prison.
The family confirmed to CPJ that Muna has so far been denied all visitations, including lawyer visits, and they are therefore unaware of his health condition.
This latest arrest comes after Muna previously spent 22 months in Israeli detention without charge under administrative detention, between June 27, 2023 and April 17, 2025.
Muna told CPJ after his April 2025 release that he endured alleged physical and psychological abuse while incarcerated, especially after October 7, 2023, when prison conditions for Palestinian detainees worsened significantly. He reported being beaten, and subjected to verbal abuse, humiliation, and harassment by prison guards. He said authorities denied him family and lawyer visits, deprived him of medical treatment, and limited his access to food, leading to a weight loss of 43 kilograms (95 pounds).
During his previous detention, the Israeli Prison Service moved Muna from Huwwara military camp to Megiddo Prison, and finally to Gilboa Prison, from which he was released. He said, before his release, Israeli officers threatened him with further detention should he resume his journalism work.
Muna’s testimony 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 inside Israeli prisons.
CPJ emailed the IDF International Press Desk for comment, and was asked to provide Muna’s identification number, information the organization does not disclose. The IDF said it “does not detain individuals on the basis of their work as journalists.”