Palestinian-American journalist Naqaa Hamed, a Drop Site News contributor, was arrested by Israeli authorities on September 16, 2026, at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank while returning from a reporting assignment covering Israeli settler attacks. Her arrest prompted concern among press freedom advocates about the targeting of journalists covering the situation in occupied territories.
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open.substack.com/pub/dropsite... The freelance journalist and Drop Site contributor was arrested by Israeli authorities as she returned from covering Israeli settler attacks in Masafer Yatta.
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