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URGENT: PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED

Nidal al-Waheidi and Haitham Abdelwahed are Palestinian journalists from the occupied Gaza Strip. They were detained by Israeli forces on October 7 while they were reporting on the attacks in southern Israel and are being held in conditions that constitute enforced disappearance, a crime under international law.

Since Nidal and Haitham’s disappearance, Israeli authorities have refused to disclose their whereabouts or share the legal grounds for their arrest or grant them access to legal representation.

Take urgent action now: write to the Israeli military advocate general using our simple tool and tell Israeli authorities to disclose Nidal and Haitham’s whereabouts and the legal grounds for their arrest, grant them access to legal representation and ensure their humane treatment. Unless they are charged with an internationally recognized criminal offence and granted a fair trial that meets international standards, they must be immediately released.

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Yifat

Tomer-Yerushalmi

Military Advocate General Brig

To Brig. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi: 
cc: Ambassador Herzog and Secretary Blinken

I am deeply concerned over the enforced disappearance of Haitham Abdelwahed, (25) and Nidal al-Waheidi (31), two Palestinian journalists from the occupied Gaza Strip whose whereabouts have remained unknown since October 7, 2023.

The detention of the two journalists was widely documented as they were reporting from Beit Hanoun/Erez crossing. Ever since the two went missing while on duty two and a half months ago, their families, colleagues, and friends have received no information about them.

As recently as December 18, the Israeli army told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that a “number of” detainees from the Gaza Strip died in custody at the military detention facilities in the Beersheba Airfield, also known as Sdeh Teyman, where hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza are held in conditions that violate the prohibition against torture and other ill-treatment.

We urge you to immediately disclose the whereabouts of Nidal al-Waheidi and Haitham Abdelwahed, detail the legal grounds for their detention, ensure their humane treatment – including access to medical services and protection from torture and other ill-treatment – and grant them access to the lawyers appointed by their families. Unless they are charged promptly with a criminal offence and granted a fair trial in accordance with international standards, they must be immediately released.

Yours sincerely,

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