One interview. — Adalah, part of his defense team

Adalah, which Al Jazeera English describes as part of his defense team, said on Nov. 4 that “Abed Abu Shehadeh’s interrogation and detention concern a single interview,” The Jerusalem Post reported. The words on the cover are the newsletter’s short form of that count; the quotation is Adalah’s, as The Jerusalem Post printed it.

The Times of Israel reported on Nov. 4 that Abu Shehadeh hosts the Arab48 news site’s podcast Al-Midan, and that he “traveled to Doha over a week ago to interview Bishara for Arab48.” His defense lawyers say the foreign agent named in the suspicion is Azmi Bishara, a former member of Israel’s parliament, the paper reported. Al Jazeera English wrote that he was arrested “after taking part in an interview in Qatar with the Palestinian intellectual Azmi Bishara.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israeli police and the Shin Bet, “the country’s internal intelligence service,” arrested him at his home in Jaffa on the night of Nov. 3. The Jerusalem Post reported that the Shin Bet and Israel Police “arrested Abu Shehadeh at his Jaffa home overnight,” with a court hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 4. His family said about 15 security personnel took part in the raid, The Times of Israel reported.

On Nov. 8, The Jerusalem Post reported that he “was released from custody five days after being arrested by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police” over suspected contact with a foreign agent, and that “No charges were filed against Abu Shehadeh.” Haaretz reported that he was released on Sunday without appearing in court, after police and the Shin Bet security service decided not to seek an extension of his detention. The Times of Israel reported that police chose not to challenge his release, so a second remand hearing was cancelled.

Upon his release, he described his detention as “wrongful” and “completely baseless,” The Jerusalem Post reported. Adalah said police raised no other allegations during his questioning, the paper reported. Reports differ on the conditions of his release, so none are given here.

CPJ’s case page reads: “On November 2, 2026, Israeli soldiers arrested Samer Khuwaira, in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.” Its Nov. 5 alert says soldiers “arrested Radio Hawa presenter Samer Khuwaira from his home in Nablus.”

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in an Arabic-language statement on Nov. 4 that Bushra al-Tawil’s isolation had been renewed on Nov. 2 for an additional month. The statement is the only source we found for the renewal; it is attributed to the Commission wherever it appears.

CPJ gives the night of Nov. 3 for Abu Shehadeh’s arrest at his home in Jaffa; The Jerusalem Post and Al Jazeera English describe it as overnight, with the court hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 4. The release on Nov. 8 is The Jerusalem Post’s report: five days after the arrest, with no charges filed.

The Times of Israel reported that the court “orders him kept in custody for an additional four days until Sunday, rather than the eight days requested by police.” The Jerusalem Post wrote that police had asked for an eight-day extension and that the judge “found reasonable suspicion and grounds for continued detention.” CPJ and Al Jazeera English give the date as Sunday, Nov. 8. Reports differ on the number of days, so this file says only that the court kept him until Sunday, Nov. 8.

CPJ reported that a police representative at the hearing first called him a journalist and, “after a recess she retracted this statement and instead said he is a political adviser.” The Times of Israel reported that the judge said he had described himself in his interrogation as a political consultant.

The Times of Israel also reported: “A police representative at the Tel Aviv court declines to say whether Bishara is the foreign agent or whether the podcast is the reason for the arrest, and refers the judge to a confidential dossier submitted by investigators.”

The Jerusalem Post reported that “Police on Wednesday placed a three-day gag order on the investigation.” The Times of Israel reported that the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court “has removed the gag order on the case.” Al Jazeera English reported that Adalah, part of his defense team, said it would appeal; no ruling on an appeal was found before his release.

The Jerusalem Post reported on Nov. 6 that three newly elected Jewish members of the U.S. Congress, Brad Lander, Daniel Biss and Scott Wiener, had written to urge Israel to release Abu Shehadeh. The Times of Israel reported the letter the same day.

The letter also said, as The Jerusalem Post quoted it: “No one should be detained for journalism, or held on evidence they cannot see.” According to The Times of Israel, the letter described “some fifteen masked Israel Police and Shin Bet officers” entering his home.

The letter was reported on Nov. 6; he was released on Nov. 8. The congressmen’s names follow The Jerusalem Post; The Times of Israel gives the third name as Steve Weiner.

CPJ’s Nov. 5 alert says he “was taken to the Huwwara Detention Center and then to the Salem Detention Center”; its case page calls the second place an interrogation center and says “The journalist was previously imprisoned from April 10, 2025 to January 7, 2026.” CPJ spells the first place Huwwara; this file uses Amnesty International’s spelling, Huwara.

CPJ’s Nov. 5 alert reports his lawyer: “According to his lawyer in an interview with CPJ, the journalist will likely face administrative detention without any charges.” The lawyer’s own words are not quoted on CPJ’s page, so the card reports him rather than quoting him. Administrative detention is detention by military order without charge or trial; CPJ’s alert describes it as detention “without any charges.”

We found no report of an administrative detention order against Khuwaira as of Nov. 8, 2026, on the pages we checked: CPJ, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, the Commission, Haaretz, The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post. Haaretz, in a Nov. 3 report, named his station differently from CPJ; the cards follow CPJ.

CPJ’s alert of Nov. 5, on Khuwaira and other journalists, says: “CPJ emailed the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police for comment on the respective cases” and “did not receive a reply at the time of publication.” On Abu Shehadeh, CPJ wrote separately that its “email to the Israeli police on Abu Shehadeh’s arrest did not receive a response by the time of publication.”

We found no statement by the Israeli government, police or Shin Bet on either arrest in the pages we checked as of Nov. 8, 2026. The Israeli side of the record in this issue is the court’s decision of Nov. 4 and the police decision, reported on Nov. 8, not to seek an extension.

CPJ’s case page says she was arrested on Feb. 5, 2026, “at the Ein Sinya military checkpoint near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.” The Commission says she is from the city of al-Bireh and has been held under administrative detention since Feb. 5, 2026. Addameer, a Palestinian prisoners’ rights organization, gives her age as 33.

CPJ records the orders as follows: “On February 12, 2026, Taweel received a four-month administrative detention order from an Israeli court.” On June 11, 2026, her attorney, “Ashraf Abu Sneineh of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society told CPJ that the Ofer Military Court had extended her administrative detention for an additional four months.” On Oct. 11, 2026, “Taweel’s mother Muntaha told CPJ that the Israeli Supreme Court extended Taweel’s detention for another four months.”

According to Abu Sneineh, CPJ writes, the detention order “was based primarily on allegations that she posed ‘a threat to public security,’ even though no indictment had been filed against her.” CPJ spells her name Taweel; the registry of this newsletter uses al-Tawil.

The bar on the card marks only dated facts: the arrest on Feb. 5, the three orders as CPJ reports them, the start of her isolation on Aug. 17 as the Commission reports it, and the Commission’s latest dated account, Nov. 4. No duration was calculated.

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Authority body for prisoners’ affairs, published its account in Arabic on Nov. 4, 2026. It says the Damon prison administration isolated her on Aug. 17, 2026; that she was moved on Aug. 23, 2026, to Neve Tirza prison in Ramla; that the isolation was renewed on Nov. 2, 2026, for an additional month; and that she is serving her current isolation in Ohalei Oz prison in Beersheba. Anadolu Agency placed her in the “Ohalei Oz isolation facility in Beersheba” on Oct. 7, citing a joint statement of the Prisoners’ Society, Addameer and the Commission.

The Commission says she has lost 16 kilograms since her arrest, has only one change of clothes, and has not been given winter blankets. It says she contracted scabies while in Damon and does not know the reason for her isolation. These are the Commission’s statements; no second source was found for them, and the Israel Prison Service’s position was not found on any page we checked.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, a Ramallah-based NGO, said through its spokesperson Amani Sarahneh, as Al Jazeera Net reported on Nov. 6, that she had been in solitary confinement for more than two months, had been forced to drink contaminated water, was surrounded at all times by cameras, and had been visited only three times.

Reports on where she was held in October differ. Anadolu placed her in Ohalei Oz on Oct. 7. The Prisoners’ Society said on Oct. 18 that she had been moved from Damon to the isolation section of Ramla prison. The Commission’s Nov. 4 account gives the sequence printed on the card.

On Sept. 20, Palestinian prisoners’ organizations, in a joint statement published by Addameer, “called for the immediate release of Al-Tawil and an end to her isolation.”