EXCLUSIVE: American citizen Sama Safi abducted by Israeli forces, detained without charge, medication withheld

Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American citizen and second-year Birzeit University student, was dragged from her family’s home in the occupied West Bank at roughly 3 a.m. on June 2 by about 10 Israeli soldiers. She has not been charged. Her family and the U.S. embassy were not told where she was taken, why, or for how long. Sen. Chris Van Hollen has publicly demanded her release, saying she told the soldiers she was American and they did not care.

Safi has familial Mediterranean fever, a chronic condition that triggers fevers spiking to 105°F and episodes of inflammation that cause debilitating pain. She manages it with daily medication and a quarterly injection she must travel abroad to receive. Her advocates say Israel has withheld that medication for days, and her family does not know her current health status. She was processed through Ofer military prison and is now held at the Moscovia interrogation center in Jerusalem.

Safi is one of four Birzeit students seized in the same wave of raids, alongside Jolan Abu Awad, Natalia Abu Dia, and graduate Laila Nael Khalil. The Israeli military said the women were suspected of promoting terrorist activity but has produced no public charges and gave the family no explanation beyond telling them they would find out in court. Van Hollen put the core issue plainly: the Netanyahu government takes American taxpayer dollars and then mistreats American citizens.

The cabinet official Van Hollen is asking to act, Marco Rubio, built the U.S. government’s most aggressive wrongful-detention apparatus — designating Iran a “state sponsor of wrongful detention,” the first country ever so labeled, and publicly welcoming Americans home from Iran and Afghanistan. That apparatus has never been aimed at Israel. Safi, an American, is held by a U.S.-funded ally that has not told her own embassy where she is.

This would not be the first time. In October 2025, members of Congress twice wrote Rubio warning that Americans detained by Israel had received minimal to no consular assistance, in contrast to other governments that immediately advocated for their citizens. Safi’s family are Florida residents, and Rubio is Florida’s former U.S. senator.

The question HNC12 is putting to his office and to the family’s congressional representative: has the United States requested consular access to Sama Safi, and has Israel granted it?

The official best positioned to act is from the same state as the family. Marco Rubio was born in Miami and represented Florida in the Senate from 2011 until 2025, when he became secretary of state — the cabinet officer directly responsible for protecting Americans detained abroad. Sama Safi’s family are Florida residents. Sen. Chris Van Hollen called on Rubio by name. The State Department’s only stated posture on her case so far is that it is “monitoring” it.

.@SecRubio — Sama Safi is a 20-year-old American citizen held without charge by Israel since June 2, with a chronic illness her family fears is going untreated in detention. Her family lives in Florida, your home state. As secretary of state, what has the department done beyond “monitoring,” and will you call for her release?

NOW: X is shadow banning Dan Bilzerian, the congressional candidate running against Randy Fine in Florida. This is illegal under state law.

https://twitter.com/danbilzerian/status/2051442723522310412

Florida Statute § 501.2041 prohibits large social media platforms from shadow banning, inconsistently censoring, or deplatforming political candidates during their campaigns.

BREAKING: ICE Officer admits to raping woman in custody for months in exchange for seeing her daughter David Courvelle, 56, pled guilty to sexually assaulting a Nicaraguan woman over the course of several months at a Louisiana ICE detention facility.

EXCLUSIVE: The Grooming & Glitching & Gagging of Conservative Influencer Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk caused a lot of harm and spread many lies in the process. There are only 3 known instances in which he BARELY even shows agency—yet, was even THAT too much for the Mossad?
1. Calls Epstein Mossad & Saudi spy

https://twitter.com/dannykpolitics/status/1965900954269872295

I’m doing a deep dive into the convergence of evangelism & Zionism. Join me! Here’s what I’ll start with.

The Scofield Reference Bible. Edited and annotated by the American Bible student Cyrus I. Scofield, it popularized dispensationalism at the beginning of the 20th century.

@freedomrideblog I’m Syrian. I grew up in a Christian and Muslim household. Anomaly really. Not supposed to happen cause my mom is the Muslim one. Gives me insight no one has.

It’s a troubling situation.

I suffered along with my people. My heart has been burning since 2011. @freedomrideblog I must say that the liberation of Sednaya the Human Slaughterhouse was more than necessary.

@RepAOC @amyspitalnick @theJCPA This is terrible. White washing on full display. Claiming Jewish Americans are all Zionists, or that the majority support a two state solution along 1967 borders, is false. This coincides with Israel’s expansionism & genocide of Gaza. @RepAOC @amyspitalnick @theJCPA Your panelists are implying that Zionism does not require forcible removal & ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Thread 🧵 Arab states should be municipalities within a larger Arab federation that unites them along social, economic and political lines while maintaining their own local government & identity. Hypothetically Jerusalem & Mecca would be the holiest cities & Baghdad our capital, with Cairo & Damascus as follow ups within a broad linguistic & geographic empire. 🕌🕍⛪️