Lama Khater (Arabic: لمى خاطر) is a Palestinian journalist and writer who comments on human rights and the Middle East.
[1] Ramallah Authority's intelligence service arrested her husband, Hazem Al-Fakhouri, many times trying to stop her writing.
[2][3] On 24 July 2018, Lama Khater was detained in Hebron by the Israeli army and taken to Ashkelon Prison.
[9] Khater was again detained on October 26, 2023, after the IDF stormed her home in the middle of the night.
Her lawyer informed the Committee to Protect Journalists that she had been strip searched and threatened with sexual violence, harm to her children, and deportation to Gaza.