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Israeli occupation authorities yesterday released female Palestinian journalist, Bushra Al-Taweel, after holding her in administrative detention for 11 months.
Last November, the Israeli army arrested Al-Taweel at the Yitzhar checkpoint,
Her father, Jamal, who had spent 20 months held in administrative detention – without charge or trial – in 2019, went on hunger strike to protest his daughter’s illegal detention.
Twenty-seven-year-old Al-Taweel is a Palestinian journalist and activist who reports on Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel.
READ: Journalist arrested after exposing the plight of Palestinians in Israeli prisons
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