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| US senator demands release of US citizen seized by IDF in West Bank on Tuesday |
| 2026-06-05 |
| [IsraelTimes] US Senator Chris Van Hollen …D-Jew-hate…. calls for the release of Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American citizen, who was among the Birzeit University students arrested by the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday.“Israeli security forces came to her home at 3 a.m. in the morning, and just took her without explanation. She told them she was an American citizen. They didn’t care,” Van Hollen reports, in a video posted to X. The IDF said at the time that the four women were suspected of “promoting terrorist activities and additional terrorism-related activities.” Safi has a medical condition that needs treatment, Van Hollen reports he was told by the student’s mother. The Democratic senator says Israel is holding Safi without charges, and has not told her family or the US Embassy where she is being held or why. He calls on US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to ensure the American’s immediate release. “We’ve seen this happen before. In fact, we’ve seen American citizens killed by violent Israeli settlers and by security forces without accountability,” he says. No mention of the 43 Americans murdered by Hamas during the 10/7 invasion and another dozen kidnapped and tortured for two years thereafter, but whatevs… “I am really sick and tired of the Israeli government — the Netanyahu government — taking American taxpayer dollars and then mistreating Americans,” the senator concludes.Related: Chris Van Hollen 05/04/2026 Israel has approved the purchase of a large batch of F-35 and F-15IA fighter jets from the United States. Chris Van Hollen 04/18/2026 US Senator demands stopping arms supplies to Israel Chris Van Hollen 01/23/2026 DHS Slates Mahmoud Khalil for Deportation to Algeria |
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