‘Israeli police placed my daughter under house arrest for five days,’ Halawani’s mother says | Anadolu
Halawani is considered one of the most prominent rising talents in Palestinian female football. She played for Sareyyet Ramallah and represented age-group national teams before reaching the women’s national team. She had her first professional experience outside Palestine in 2025 when she joined Jordan’s Nashama al-Mustaqbal sports club academy and helped it win the Jordanian under-19 female league title. But her sports career was temporarily halted after she was summoned last Tuesday to the Talpiot police station in west Jerusalem for questioning before Israeli authorities arrested her and referred her to a court, which extended her detention before her release. “Israeli police placed my daughter under house arrest for five days,” her mother, Wissam al-Halawani, said. The family lived through “difficult times” during her daughter’s detention, Wissam added upon the footballer’s release, expressing happiness that she returned home after days of anxiety and waiting. Despite Halawani’s release, former squad player Natalie Abu Diya remains in detention after Israeli forces arrested her last week during a raid on her home in Ramallah.
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