WANA (Feb 21) – Two hundred days have passed since the detention of Farah Abu Ayash, a journalist working with Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, by Israeli forces—an arrest that has drawn growing concern from legal advocates and human rights observers.

 

Farah Abu Ayash is one of 66 Palestinian women currently held in Israeli custody. She was arrested during a late-night raid on 6 August 2025, when Israeli troops stormed her home in the village of Beit Ummar, located north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

 

According to her lawyer, Hassan Abbadi, who has been able to visit her in detention, Israeli authorities have repeatedly obstructed the legal process related to her case.

 

Abbadi stated that Abu Ayash spent the first 53 days of her detention in solitary confinement at the Moskobiya detention center, before being transferred to Sharon Prison and later to Damon Prison.

 

Abbadi further reported that Abu Ayash has been subjected to repeated physical assaults and verbal abuse during her detention. He added that body searches were carried out in a degrading manner, accompanied by insults and offensive language directed at her and her family.

 

Since 7 October 2023, Israeli authorities, citing a “state of emergency,” have prevented representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian prisoners, both women and men. This restriction has significantly limited independent monitoring of detention conditions and heightened international concern over the treatment of detainees.

 

As the 200th day of Abu Ayash’s detention passes, calls are intensifying for transparency, respect for due process, and immediate access for international humanitarian organizations to Israeli detention facilities—demands increasingly echoed by media and human rights groups worldwide.

Farah Abu Ayash, a journalist working with Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. Social media /WANA News Agency

Farah Abu Ayash, a journalist working with Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. Social media /WANA News Agency