Occupation Forces Arrest Journalist Bushra al-Tawil North of Ramallah
Occupation forces arrested journalist Bushra Jamal al-Tawil as she passed through the Ein Sinia checkpoint north of Ramallah yesterday evening and transferred her to the al-Maskobiyya detention center.
The Prisoners’ Media Office said on Friday that al-Tawil had spent more than five years in occupation prisons across previous arrests.
Occupation forces released prisoner al-Tawil in January 2025 as part of the first phase of the prisoner exchange deal and the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Tawil is a journalist and community activist who has been arrested multiple times by the Israeli occupation. She described Damon Prison as “a graveyard for the living in every sense of the word,” stating that female prisoners are completely isolated from the outside world, with television and radio confiscated and family visits banned.
Bushra was first arrested on July 6, 2011, when she was 18 years old. She was sentenced to 16 months in prison but was released as part of the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange deal in 2011.
Occupation forces rearrested her on July 2, 2014, to serve the remainder of her previous sentence. She was released on May 17, 2015, after serving 10 and a half months.
On November 1, 2017, occupation authorities rearrested Bushra after raiding her home, searching it, ransacking its contents, and confiscating a sum of money. Occupation soldiers also interrogated members of her family and searched her inside the house before arresting her and transferring her to a military jeep.
The so-called military commander issued a six-month administrative detention order against her on November 6, 2017. During the confirmation hearing, the military judge reduced the period to four months.
The detention order was nonetheless renewed for an additional four months in February 2018. After this order expired, occupation authorities released her, having spent eight months in administrative detention.
Bushra is the daughter of Palestinian prisoner Jamal al-Tawil, whom the occupation arrested on October 27, 2025, after raiding his home in the Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank. This latest arrest adds to a series of previous detentions totaling more than 19 years in captivity.
The occupation had released al-Tawil, 61, as part of the fifth batch of the prisoner exchange deal within the first phase of the ceasefire agreement on January 19, before rearresting him.
