Palestinians travel on a cart attached to a car along the coastal road in Zawaida, central Gaza Strip, February 11, 2026PALESTINIAN journalists, previously jailed by Israel, today reported facing widespread abuse while they were in custody.
In a damning new report published by the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), reporters were subjected to routine beatings, starvation and sexual assault.
The CPJ said it interviewed 59 Palestinian journalists who had been imprisoned by Israel after the Hamas-led attack of October 2023. All but one reported “torture, abuse or other forms of violence.”
The alleged abuse carried out by the Israelis ranged from beatings to electroshocks. Two journalists said they had been raped while in custody.
Journalist Sami al-Sai reported being stripped by soldiers who then penetrated him with a baton in a cell in Israel’s Megiddo prison.
The CPJ report said: “Descriptions of sexual violence appeared repeatedly in the testimonies, with journalists describing assaults as intended to humiliate, terrorise and permanently scar them.”
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