From YNet— and picked up later by the New York Times:
Israel has arrested a Palestinian journalist who works for the Arabic language Al-Jazeera satellite network, and a journalists’ advocacy group says he is being held without charges.
Al-Jazeera said in a release issued Monday that 47-year-old Samer Allawi, its bureau chief in Afghanistan, was taken into custody on Aug. 10 as he tried to leave the West Bank to return to the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Allawi’s brother, Masab, told Al Jazeera that his brother carried a Jordanian passport, and that this was his first visit back to the West Bank since he left, in 20 years ago.
The Committee to Protect Journalists in New York said in a statement that Allawi has been detained without charges and called on Israel to clarify the legal basis for holding him.
