RAMALLAH, Monday, 16 December 2019 (WAFA) - The Israeli authorities today issued an administrative detention order for a period of four months against Palestinian woman journalist Bushra al-Tawil, 26, who was detained last week at her family home in al-Bireh, Ramallah’s twin city, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).

This brings the number of Palestinian women held in administrative detention to three, including Shorouk al-Badan, from Bethlehem, and Ala al-Bisher, from Qalqilya.

PPS said Tawil had been arrested by the Israeli occupation three times before her current detention and since 2011 when she was sentenced to a prison term of 16 and a half months, and was released as part of a prisoners’ exchange deal.

In 2014, the Israeli military re-arrested her to serve her previous sentence. In 2017, Tawil was arrested again and place in administrative detention under the pretext of secret evidence. Her detention lasted for eight months, until she was arrested once again on December 11, days after the release of her father, Jamal al-Tawil, former mayor of al-Bireh who served 20 months in administrative detention for his role in the resistance. Tawil’s mother had also served time in Israeli detention for her resistance of the occupation.

The PPS said the number of female prisoners in Israeli jails has reached 42, of whom 38 are held at Damoon Prison, while the remaining four, including Tawil, are kept in Hasharon detention center.

M.K.