Veteran Palestinian Journalist Detained Again After Prisoner Exchange

Date: 11 February 2026 - 22:21

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RAMALLAH (Dispatches) -- Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Bushra al-Taweel was re-arrested last Friday near Ramallah, 15 years after her first detention. Transferred first to al-Maskubiya interrogation center and then to a women’s prison, her arrest comes a year after her January 2025 release in a prisoner exchange.

Al-Taweel, a graduate of Modern College’s Journalism and Photography program, has spent over five years in Israeli prisons, campaigning for detainees’ rights through the Anin al-Qaid Network. Her father, Jamal al-Taweel, a Hamas figure, was also re-arrested months earlier after a prior exchange release.