The Independent, on West Bank, 15 November 2026

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Palestinian journalist ‘abused and spat on’ in ‘nightmare’ six-hour detention by Israeli troops

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The Independent reports Mohammad Hesham's account of being seized from his home in at-Tuwani by Israeli occupation forces and held for six hours at Susya military base, where he says he was beaten, blindfolded and told he would die. It tests the IOF's claim that he approached 'an Israeli community in the southern Hebron Hills in a suspicious manner' against security footage it has seen. It also states in its own voice that the UN's top court has found the occupation illegal. No findings were raised against this article.

What it gets right

  • “Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land, deemed by the UN’s top court as illegal under international law”

    The outlet states the ICJ's ruling on the occupation in its own voice and does not treat it as one side's opinion.

  • “after being taken from his village by a group of Israeli soldiers”

    The opening sentence names who seized him and treats him as a person with a village and a story, not as a 'suspect'.

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