Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth was finally forced to react, following public pressure over the illegal detention of Farah Abu Ayyash, the Tasnim News Agency’s correspondent in the West Bank of Palestine.

In response to follow-ups by Tasnim and several other regional media outlets, the Hebrew newspaper published a report on the interrogation process of Farah Abu Ayyash under the headline “This is how I broke the Iranian-operated journalist: a glimpse inside the interrogation room,” based on the dialogue between the Tasnim correspondent and a Shin Bet interrogator.

This deceptive headline leads readers to believe that the Zionist regime’s Shin Bet has obtained valuable and unique information and achieved a major security accomplishment for the regime. However, the relationship between this headline and the content of the report, as well as Farah Abu Ayyash’s statements to the Zionist interrogator after four months of illegal detention shows the baselessness of those claims.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth, when an Israeli intelligence officer asked Tasnim’s correspondent in Arabic, “Do you understand that Iran is a hostile state to Israel?”, she replied, “My enemy, as far as I'm concerned, is the one who starves two million residents and children (in Gaza). That’s what I can tell you."

Tasnim’s correspondent gave that courageous response to the Zionist officer while she has been held in solitary confinement for four months and subjected to beatings, insults, humiliation, cold, and hunger as forms of torture.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth’s report, after the Israeli intelligence officer examined the Tasnim correspondent’s mobile phone and presented the text of her chats with the Iranian news agency’s editorial desk as evidence of a crime, Farah Abu Ayyash responded: “I have nothing to hide… I haven’t eaten in 15 days… The glass of water you brought me is the first I’ve had in two days. The water we have in the prison is yellow. I don't sleep. They beat me and call me a terrorist. Am I a terrorist? What exactly did I do?"

Based on information it claims to have received from Shin Bet, the Zionist newspaper, in a ridiculous claim, wrote that Farah Abu Ayyash received money in exchange for reports she provided to Tasnim and considered this a sign the correspondent’s activities were non-journalistic. However, this Hebrew media outlet has deliberately ignored the fact that, firstly, all materials sent by Farah Abu Ayyash to the news agency were published on Tasnim’s official output, and the claim of accessing such information is absurd, since it is available online and can be seen by ordinary individuals.

Therefore, portraying the published content of a 24-year-old woman on the public output of an official website as an “intelligence extraction” after four months of torturing her by a major security apparatus is clearly absurd and laughable.

Secondly, Ahronoth and Shin Bet entered the discussion of journalism so amateurishly that they failed to realize that the payments were not solely for the reporter herself, but for her entire media team, including filming and editing.

All of this shows that the Zionists’ hands are empty when it comes to scenario-making, and that they have arrested an innocent journalist who, from the outset, prepared reports publicly and not covertly, bearing the Tasnim logo. Her work was limited to the West Bank, which, even under the Israeli regime’s own claimed laws, has nothing to do with the Zionists.

The Zionist interrogator, Nassim Hayek, told Yedioth Ahronoth regarding this case, “This is the first case of its kind in the country. A Palestinian journalist working for Iran, and an Iranian agency established in the West Bank under Israel's nose."

This Zionist media outlet wrote about Farah Abu Ayyash that Tasnim’s correspondent holds a bachelor's degree in communications, has an official international press card from a human rights organization, and worked as a freelance journalist for PNN --the Palestine News Network-- and Wattan, an independent Palestinian news agency.

These statements themselves clearly confirm the illegality of the Israeli regime’s claims against the Tasnim News Agency and the correspondent in the West Bank, as she is a media professional who has been active in the West Bank for years.

Fundamentally, responsibility for internal affairs in the West Bank has nothing to do with the Zionist regime, and it cannot act there based on the laws governing the occupied territories. Of course, it is clear that from a regime that has killed 70,000 people and subjects two million people in Gaza to cold and hunger, expecting commitment to law or honorable conduct is impossible.

Nevertheless, the main issue is that the Zionist regime --which claims intelligence superiority, technological power, and the like-- has no admissible pretext and is merely seeking to restore its failed intelligence credibility after October 7 by torturing a young woman in a manner reminiscent of pre-civilizational practices.