The pounding on the door came before dawn.
When Ahmed Safi awoke to the sound of Israeli soldiers storming his apartment building in Birzeit town, he assumed they were there for someone else.
The Palestinian father never imagined the raid would end with the arrest of his 20-year-old daughter, Sama, a psychology student at Birzeit University, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
"We were surprised, even shocked. We never expected the raid to be for her arrest,” Ahmed told Middle East Eye.
According to the family, soldiers entered the building in the early hours of Tuesday morning, shouting orders as they moved through the premises.
