‘How do I know my mum isn’t dead in a ditch after Israel arrested her?’

D Murphy is still being held in Israel (Picture: International Solidarity Movement)

Seren Murphy, 43, was relaxing at home on a Saturday night when she got a message on the WhatsApp family group chat from her mum.

She’d been arrested by Israel.

Seren’s mum, D Murphy, 70, flew to the occupied West Bank in early May to do what she has been doing for 20 years – help Palestinians.

But no one heard from the mum-of-three, grandmother-of-eight and great-grandmother-of-two for...