Overview

• Israeli forces detained Dr. Nasser Laham during a pre-dawn raid on July 7 at his home in Al-Duheisha near Bethlehem.
• Laham serves as editor-in-chief of the Ma’an News Agency and manages the West Bank bureau of Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen channel.
• Soldiers conducted a thorough search of his residence and seized laptops, mobile phones and other journalistic equipment.
• He is held under administrative detention without formal charges, part of a wider pattern affecting over 50 Palestinian journalists.
• A hearing to extend his detention is scheduled for Thursday at Ofer Military Court and none of his seized devices have been returned yet.