Lawmakers call on Rubio to intervene in case of US citizen detained by Israel

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Sama Safi is more likely to be forced into a plea deal than see Washington secure her release, relative tells Middle East Eye More than 40 US lawmakers have signed a letter urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to intervene in the case of a US citizen who has been held in an Israeli prison without charge since June. The signatories are all Democrats, but they come from both chambers of Congress. Sama Safi, a 20-year-old Birzeit University student in the occupied West Bank, was arrested with thre