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 days after she was detained and threatened with deportation on Saturday, an order she is fighting in the courts.

Seren, a librarian in Swansea, told Metro: ‘How do I know she’s not dead in a ditch somewhere?

‘When you look at what’s happening in Gaza, the fact that they have murdered aid workers and medical staff, what’s to stop them from bumping off a little old lady?’ As much as Seren’s phone has bee

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