New York, November 2, 2021 – Authorities with Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, should immediately release Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Mashrawi, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. At 4 p.m. on October 31, Hamas’ Internal Security Forces arrested al-Mashrawi, director of the local news website Al-Mashreq News and the Al-Mashreq Foundation for Media, which provides training to journalists, near the Saraya junction in downtown Gaza City without informing him of the reason for his arrest, according to the regional press freedom group SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom, a statement by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate...