Around 3:00 AM on June 2, approximately 10 Israeli soldiers raided the family home of 20-year-old American citizen Sama Safi in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank and took her into custody.
Safi is a second-year student and painter at Birzeit University. She was detained alongside three other female studentsβNatalie Abu Diya, Jolan Abu Awwad, and Laila Khalilβas part of a broader overnight sweep across the West Bank that resulted in at least 31 Palestinian detentions.
She is being held without formal charges. U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen has publicly condemned the arrest, noting that the Israeli government failed to inform her family or the U.S. Embassy of her location or the reasoning behind her abduction. Van Hollen and grassroots campaigns are demanding that the U.S. government secure her immediate release.
Yesterday, the IDF seized 4 students from their homes in the West Bank, including 20-year-old American, Sama Safi.
The Israeli govt didnβt tell her family or the U.S. Embassy where or why she was being taken & is holding her without charges.
America must secure her release NOW.