🟥 CENTRAL PALESTINE
🔳 israeli war criminals continued efforts to expand israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, with bulldozers levelling Palestinian land near Arraba, south of Jenin. Local reports indicate preparations are underway for a new settlement project known as “Emek Dotan”, further expanding settlement infrastructure on Palestinian land.
▪️ The Magistrate’s Court in Jerusalem extended the detention of Rand Halawani, a 20-year-old player for the Palestinian national women’s football team, until next Friday. Halawani was summoned for questioning before being arrested and transferred to court. Her legal team has filed an appeal against the detention order.
▪️ israeli occupation authorities also renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian child Khalid Shrime for an additional six months, extending his imprisonment without charge or trial under a system used to hold Palestinians indefinitely on so-called secret evidence.
▪️ israeli settlers, under the protection of israeli occupation forces, reportedly released livestock into Palestinian agricultural land and fruit orchards in the Khillet al-Hamam area south of Yatta. Residents said the animals were driven into cultivated fields, causing damage to crops and orchards relied upon by Palestinian families.
Israeli forces detained Palestine women’s national team player Rand Halwani, aged 20, after summoning her to a police station in occupied Jerusalem.
This incident came hours after occupation forces apprehended former national team player and journalism student at Birzeit University, Natalie Abu Daya, following a raid on her residence in Birzeit town, north of Ramallah.
Two members of the Palestinian women’s national football team, Rand Halawani and Natalie Abu Dayeh, were abducted and detained by Israeli authorities in separate incidents in occupied Palestine.
Abu Dayyeh was one of four people arrested in an Israeli raid on student accommodation near Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank. ‘israeli’ occupation authorities later detained Al Halawani after summoning her to the Talpiot police station in West Jerusalem, occupied Palestine.
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Palestinian Football Association calls for international action after Israel detained women’s national team player Rand Al-Halawani and former squad player Natalie Abu Diya without clear grounds
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Palestinian Football Association calls for international action after Israel detained women’s national team player Rand Al-Halawani and former squad player Natalie Abu Diya without clear grounds
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Israeli forces have detained a player on the Palestinian national women’s football team, along with a former national player, sparking renewed anger at Fifa for its failure to ban the apartheid state’s football association.
Rand Halawani, 20, was taken on Tuesday night in Jerusalem and a court extended her detention until Friday, amid reports that her family did not know where she was being held.
Ex-national player Natalie Abu Diyeh, was also detained in the illegally occupied West Bank alongside three other young Palestinian women, AFP reported. Israel’s military claimed, without offering evidence, that the women were suspected of “terrorist-related” activity.
Palestinians detained by Israel are at serious risk of abuse. Israeli rights group B’Tselem has found that Israel runs a “network of torture camps” where Palestinians are subjected to beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation and sexual violence.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said the players’ detention was part of a “pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability”.
Palestinian footballers are “denied freedom of movement, safety and the basic right to participate in sport under equal conditions, rights that Fifa explicitly guarantees,” it added.
Fifa has not commented on the players’ detention, even though the PFA is a member.
“The continued silence and inaction of the international football community… enables these illegal practices to continue with impunity,” the PFA said.
As the federation gears up to host the World Cup in North America next week, it is under renewed scrutiny for continuing to allow the Israel Football Association (IFA) to be a member despite Israel’s long history of suppressing Palestinian sports.
In 2014, Israeli soldiers repeatedly shot two Palestinian footballers in the feet as they returned from a training session in the West Bank, ending their careers.
In March, Fifa’s disciplinary committee said Israel had brought “football into disrepute” and was practising a “de facto system of segregation” by excluding Palestinians from the sport and failing to take action against rampant anti-Arab racism in many clubs.
But it stopped short of banning or suspending the country’s football association, as it did with Russia shortly after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Seguramente ya te lo ha contado la prensa, pero a una semana del Mundial de Futbol de la FIFA, "Israel" ha secuestrado a 2 mujeres futbolistas de la Selección Nacional Palestina, Natali Abu Dia y Rand Halwani, en Ramallah (Cisjordania).
Tras 3 años de genocidio, "Israel" sigue sin ser expulsado de la FIFA y de la UEFA, como sí hicieron con Rusia, incluso prohíben mostrar una bandera rusa en partidos como la final de la Champions League pero si es de "Israel", todo genial.
Even the Republicans (Rand Paul) are already against Donald Trump's War Crimes in Venezuela.
There is no Fentanyl.
You can't just execute suspected criminals.
These aren't even drug traffickers.
And they definately aren't travelling 2,830 miles in a speedboat to the USA.
Israel extends detention of Palestinian women’s football player Rand Halawani
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Israeli authorities on Wednesday prolonged the detention of a player from the Palestinian women’s national football team after she was called in for questioning in Jerusalem, according to Palestinian officials.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) condemned the continued detention of 20-year-old Rand Halawani, who was taken into custody on Tuesday evening.
In a statement, it said Halawani’s arrest and that of a former national team player was “not an isolated incident, it is part of a well-documented pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability.”
The Palestinian governorate for Jerusalem said an Israeli court had extended Halawani’s detention until Friday.
Separately, Israel’s military detained former national team footballer Natalie Abu Diyeh, a Birzeit University student, along with three other young Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
🇮🇱🇵🇸⚽️ INFO — Israël prolonge la détention de Rand Halawani, 20 ans, joueuse de l’équipe nationale palestinienne de football féminin.
Le communiqué de la Fédération palestinienne de football est clair :
« Ce n’est pas un incident isolé, mais un schéma systématique de ciblage des athlètes palestiniens, qui se poursuit sans aucune responsabilité. »
Two players from the Palestinian women's national football team, Rand Halawani and Natalie Abu Dayeh, have been detained by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Abu Dayeh was detained during an Israeli raid on student accommodation near Birzeit University in the West Bank.
Rand Halawani was detained after being summoned to the Talpiot police station in West Jerusalem. Following public backlash, an Israeli court announced that Halawani's detention has been extended until Friday.
Israeli forces detained Palestine women’s national team player Rand Halwani, aged 20, after summoning her to a police station in occupied Jerusalem.
This incident came hours after occupation forces apprehended former national team player and journalism student at Birzeit University, Natalie Abu Daya, following a raid on her residence in Birzeit town, north of Ramallah.
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