Israeli soldiers arrested Samer Khuwaira, a Palestinian correspondent for the Qatari-funded pan-Arab newspaper Al Araby Al Jadeed and contributor to other outlets, in the West Bank city of Nablus on April 10, 2025. Video footage showed Khuwaira being taken from his home at night by about a dozen armed soldiers.
His wife, Iman Amer, told Al Araby Al Jadeed that the soldiers first raided their neighbor’s house and beat him, before realizing it was the wrong person and coming to their house.
“When they made sure Samer was a journalist, they handcuffed and blindfolded him, and arrested him,” she told CPJ.
Khuwaira was sent to administrative detention for three months on April 23, according to his wife and Al Araby Al Jadeed.
On July 8, Khuwaira’s administrative detention was extended for another three months, his wife told CPJ, after speaking with the Palestinian Prisoners Club, a non-governmental organization that supports inmates in Israeli jails.
“We know nothing about him other than that he is being held in Nafha Prison [in southern Israel],” she said.
Iman Amer said that she was told by an ex-prisoner, who was with her husband at an interrogation center in the northern West Bank town of Huwara, that an Israeli security officer “informed Samer that he would not be released because he poses a threat to Israeli security.”
“However, there are no specific charges against him, and his administrative detention will continue,” she added.