A Palestinian freelancer working for NBC was arrested in Israel on suspicion of inciting terror and identifying with a terrorist organization, according to local reports.

Mirvat al-Azzeh, who lives in East Jerusalem, was jailed Thursday after sharing four recent Facebook posts regarding Hamas’ sneak attack on Israel on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,200 people, according to The Jerusalem Post.

It’s unclear what al-Azzeh, 45, wrote in those posts, though police described them at a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate Court as “inciting and glorying the horrible acts committed against civilians,” per the outlet.

The police said that al-Azzeh “arrived ready for arrest,” without her cell phone but with phone numbers written on her leg, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Al-Azzeh reportedly cooperated fully with Israeli police, who first requested permission from the prosecutor’s office to interrogate the journalist last month.

Permission was granted last week, according to The Jerusalem Post, when al-Azzeh admitted to the offenses.

“The woman in question is an ordinary woman, who works as a journalist and whose work is important to us all,” al-Azzeh’s attorney said, according to The Jerusalem Post.

“She was asked during her investigation about her employment. I believe she admitted to all the deeds described to her, and cooperated fully with the investigation. She did not attempt to conceal the offenses or claim that her accounts had been hacked. Even when she didn’t have a mobile phone, which is the main tool involved, she still said, ‘Yes, those are my posts.'”

After being arrested on Thursday, al-Azzeh was held until a Friday hearing, at which her detention was extended an extra four days, per the outlet.

It wasn’t immediately clear how much jail time al-Azzeh could be facing.

The Post has sought comment from NBC.

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Back in April, al-Azzeh shared a 24-minute post to YouTube titled “See the full story: An x-ray technician harasses journalist Mervat Al-Azza and grabs her breasts!!”

In the video, al-Azzeh describes, in Arabic, how she was assaulted at a West Bank hospital, but felt pressured by authorities to drop her complaint against her attacker and ordered her to undergo a mental health evaluation, according to a report of the incident in Middle East Eye.

“I cannot find a reason for this, I just see them making things harder for me,” al-Azzeh told the outlet at the time.

According to al-Azzeh’s LinkedIn page, she has been a freelance journalist since September 2018.

Her recent stories on NBC News — where she goes by Marvat Azzeh — deal with the Israel-Hamas war.

Her most recent byline on Nov. 12 reported that newborns at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City were dying as the facility ran out of resources.

It’s unclear if NBC plans to keep al-Azzeh on its payroll once she’s released from custody.

Her arrest comes as other mainstream US outlets have sparked outrage over relying on journalists who have expressed antisemitic sentiments in the past.

The New York Times recently rehired a Hitler-praising filmmaker to cover the Israeli-Palestinian war.

Soliman Hijjy — who hailed the Nazi leader as recently as 2018 in a post on Facebook — boasted a byline at The Times nearly every day between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19, reporting from Gaza.

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Hijjy’s 2018 post — including a 2012 Facebook post where he wrote, “How great you are, Hitler” in Arabic alongside a photoshopped image of Hitler seemingly taking a selfie — were unearthed last year, when pro-Israel outlets called out the Times for hiring antisemitic journalists as freelancers.

At the time, Hijjy didn’t appear to be working for the Times anymore, and had since taken down his controversial pro-Hitler posts.

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ripped mainstream Western media — including Reuters, The Associated Press, CNN, and The New York Times — for working with photojournalists embedded with Hamas during the Oct. 7 massacre.

CNN ended up severing ties with a freelancer who was photographed getting a kiss from the terror group’s leader.