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HEBRON (Ma'an) -- An Israeli military court at Ofer detention center on Monday sentenced a young Palestinian man to a month in jail after he was found guilty of making an "illegal phone call," according to a Palestinian prisoners group.

Twenty-one year-old Musab Nidal Zghayyar from Hebron was jailed on charges of talking to a Hamas dignitary over the phone, according to a statement released by Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights on Tuesday.

Zghayyar studies journalism and media at Hebron university and was detained in a midnight raid on his home by Israeli forces on Oct. 28.

The statement highlighted that the Israeli occupation treated the phone call as "threat" to Israel's security.

"The occupation (authorities) fabricate various charges and excuses in an attempt to avoid responsibility for its arrests of university students. These arrests deliberately block their educational paths," Fuad al-Khuffash, the center's director, said.

He also highlighted that the majority of detainees since the beginning of November have been students and called for their "immediate release."

In September, 23-year-old Razi Nabulsi from Haifa was detained by Israeli police for posts he made on Facebook.

A Palestinian citizen of Israel, Nabulsi was detained for nearly a week for "incitement," but Israeli authorities refused to specify which posts had led to the detention and instead kept the evidence secret.

Reporters Without Borders ranked Israel 112th in the world for press freedom in its 2013 report, arguing that while Israeli journalists enjoy freedom of expression, there are major structural barriers related to military control and security issues that prevent a free press more generally.