⚡️NEW: A coalition of 102 faith, human rights and civil rights organizations is urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to secure the immediate and permanent release of Sama Safi, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and Birzeit University honors student with a severe chronic illness who has been held by the Israeli military since soldiers raided her family’s West Bank home on June 2.
🔹The letter says the Palestinian-American Safi was shackled, blindfolded, denied food and water for 24 hours, verbally abused and forced into stress positions before being unlawfully transferred to Damon prison in Israel, warning that the interruption of her specialist treatment could become life-threatening.
🔹 A new report on Monday found that at least 10 Palestinian women at Damon have contracted scabies amid overcrowding, poor ventilation and shortages of basic supplies, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, which describes the conditions and denial of treatment as “torture and systematic medical neglect.”
