Farah Abu Ayyash, a Palestinian journalist for the Tasnim News Agency in the West Bank city of Hebron (al-Khalil), was arrested by Zionist forces in a night raid on her home in the village of Beit Amr, located north of Hebron (al-Khalil), on August 6, 2025.
Since being transferred to the Moskobiya prison in the north of occupied Jerusalem (al-Quds), she has been subjected to torture, harassment and assault.
In a letter narrated by Ms. Lama Abu Halou, another Tasnim reporter in Palestine, Abu Ayyash has recounted some of the physical and mental torture and abuse she has suffered in the prisons of the Zionist regime.
Abu Ayyash has now been in Zionist captivity for 110 days.
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In part of the letter, she says:
“They took me to Moskobia, it was like a horror movie... They beat us and put us in a cell... They took my headscarf and handcuffed and shackled my hands and feet... They threw a heavy chain over my shoulders... The Nachshon force (the Israeli prison service special operations unit) beat me hard... A female soldier pulled my hair and slammed my head against the wall and told me to kiss the Israeli flag, but I refused. She started beating me and kicking me with her feet... I was feeling bad, after three days they took me to the hospital. A female guard grabbed me by the head and slapped me hard in the face... I filed a complaint against her.
“After Moskobia, they took me to Ramla... A dilapidated room with no light, I screamed... They took me to an underground cell... The cell was full of cockroaches, insects and mosquitoes... It was scary... There were rats too. The cell was very, very dirty... They threatened me constantly... I screamed all night. Cockroaches had covered my body and face, I still have the marks of the bites on my body. Then they took me back to Moskobia... I lost consciousness several times along the way. (The Israeli soldiers) had turned the air conditioner so cold that it was unbearable. Each time I was transferred in a prison van it was horrible and scary. After 55 days they brought me to Damon.”
Farah Abu Ayyash had previously been arrested twice by the Zionist soldiers and had been pressured and tortured to stop working with the Tasnim news agency, but she refused to accept the Zionists’ demands.
This brave and committed Palestinian journalist, who is currently being held in cell number 4 of Damon Prison alongside Maysoun Masharqa- another Palestinian prisoner who has been deprived of seeing her children for months, expects all journalists, managers and media activists who support the cause of Palestine and al-Quds to be her resounding voice in defense of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and opposing the oppression of hundreds of Palestinian journalists who have been held in the Zionist regime’s prisons and solitary confinement for years without any specific charges, simply for the crime of being a journalist.
Tasnim, in line with its inherent mission, intended to respond to this heinous action by the Zionist regime as soon as the courageous and committed journalist was detained. However, after consultation with a number of intermediary reporters and the lawyer of the Palestinian journalist, as well as considering Ms. Abu Ayyash’s personal concerns about the legal proceedings in Israeli courts and the potential risks that Israeli military forces might pose to her family members, it was decided to refrain from publishing information about the case.
All media outlets aligned with the axis of resistance inside and outside Iran are expected to be the voice of this 25-year-old Palestinian journalist, a journalist who came into the world during the days of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000 and, throughout her years of activity in the media world, has always tried to be a loud voice for her oppressed compatriots in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and to expose the ugly face of the occupation and crimes of the Zionists against the Palestinians and other oppressed nations.