️ The Israeli regime has extended the detention of Rand Halawani, a 20-year-old player on the Palestinian women's national football team, after she was summoned for questioning in Jerusalem on Tuesday evening.

️ The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) denounced the prolonged detention, calling Halawani's arrest and that of a former national team player "not an isolated incident, it is part of a well-documented pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability."

️ According to the Palestinian governorate for Jerusalem, an Israeli court on Wednesday extended Halawani's detention until Friday. The Israeli military also arrested former national player Natalie Abu Diyeh, a student at Birzeit University, and three other young Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

️ The military claimed the four women were suspected of "promoting terrorist activities." Birzeit University denounced the arrests as part of Israel's "systematic policies targeting Palestinian education and students' right to continue their academic journey."

️ Bishop Imad Haddad of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, to which Natalie Abu Diyeh belonged, called for her release, stating the family does not know where she has been taken.

️ According to the Prisoners Club, 89 Palestinian women are currently in Israeli jails, including three minors and three pregnant women. In late May, it announced over 9,400 Palestinians were in Israeli jails.

Source: www.aljazeera.com