Bushra al-Tawil

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Bushra al-Tawil or Bushra al-Taweel (Arabic: بشرى الطويل) is a Palestinian journalist, former Palestinian prisoner and prisoners' rights activist from Ramallah who has frequently been held under administrative detention without charge by Israel.

[1] On July 1, 2014 she was rearrested and had her former sentence reimposed by a military court, she served the remainder eleven months in prison.

[6] She was sentenced to administrative detention on December 16,[7] for which she was held in the Hasharon prison in northern Israel.

[5] On November 8, 2020, she was arrested on the road from Ramallah to Nablus, and in March 2021 her period of administrative detention was extended by four months.

[8] Her father, a former mayor of Al-Bireh and a Hamas leader, began a hunger strike demanding his daughter's release.