<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">On Friday morning, Israeli forces arrested the young Palestinian social media activist <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/abod_bt77?igsh=a2tlMzE1cDExeW0y">, Aboud Battah</a> , and took him to an unknown location, only to release him hours later.</p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">First video after arrest</span> </h2><figure class="media"><oembed url="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBi2inxNQfl/?igsh=MWpuZnBwYnRyNmV4ag=="></oembed></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br><br> Battah appeared on his Instagram account to reassure his followers, saying that he was with others in the morning at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, before Israeli forces surrounded them, arrested him, and released him a short time later. </p><figure class="media"><oembed url="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBi7jJsthEE/?igsh=MWl5YXgwb29uZHYzMQ=="></oembed></figure><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br><br> Battah said he was handcuffed, beaten, insulted and threatened by an Israeli soldier who recognized his identity and that he was an influencer on social media. Aboud pledged to "continue exposing the crimes of the occupation throughout the Gaza Strip."<br></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br><br> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">Who is Aboud Battah?</span></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br> He calls himself “the most powerful journalist in the world” and is a 17-year-old Palestinian from the Gaza Strip. </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1177/658;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/f5d2ce6f-77b3-47a4-a1c2-b389101aa475.jpg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He is famous for his coverage of the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip via social media in a distinctive way that is distinguished by his sense of humor and sarcastic smile, which made him follow millions of people. </p><figure class="media"><oembed url="https://www.instagram.com/abod_bt77?igsh=a2tlMzE1cDExeW0y"></oembed></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br> On his verified Instagram account, Aboud has 3.6 million followers, while other accounts such as TikTok have more than 771,000 followers, Facebook has 197,000 followers, and his YouTube account has 113,000 followers.</p>