The Preventive Security Forces of the Palestinian Authority have detained journalist and former prisoner Sami Al-Sa’i from a street in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm.

According to family and local sources, Al-Sa’i was apprehended while in the city center and taken to an undisclosed location. Subsequently, a court affiliated with the Palestinian Authority in Tulkarm extended his detention by 15 days in the security forces’ prisons.

Al-Sa’i is recognized as a prominent media figure in the northern West Bank and has been arrested multiple times by PA security agencies due to his journalistic activism and fearless exposure of corruption and abuses within official institutions.

Observers say this arrest comes amid increasing criticism of the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing policy of silencing dissent and targeting journalists and activists, despite calls from human rights groups to uphold rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Palestinian Basic Law.

Sami Al-Sa’i is a former Israeli prisoner who spent 15 months in detention during his last imprisonment before his release several months ago. Upon release, he gave a harrowing testimony about the physical and psychological torture he endured, describing it as “the harshest experience of his life.”