“I want you to free Sama Safi. She is a 20-year-old U.S. citizen. Israeli forces took her. She is in an Israeli military prison. She is sick. Her doctors say she needs medicine. I talked to her parents. They are scared. I don't like how she is being treated. We wrote a letter about her. I want the Secretary to work on releasing her. She should be with her family.”
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