Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoudi has been freed after a year in Israeli prisons. He had been held without charge under Israel’s so-called administrative detention policy after he was arrested at his home in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, in April 2025. Upon his release, al-Samoudi showed signs of torture and severe malnutrition, and says he lost half his body weight due to systematic starvation. In 2022, Ali al-Samoudi was shot in the shoulder by the Israeli sniper that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin.