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June 7, 2021
Israeli police on Sunday arrested a prominent activist campaigning against the threatened expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the Israeli-annexed east al-Quds neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Police took Mona el-Kurd, 23, away for questioning and left a summons for her twin brother, Muhammed, their father told AFP a day after police had also detained an Al Jazeera journalist covering a demonstration nearby.
The family’s lawyer, Nasser Odeh, said police charged Mona el-Kurd with acts that disturb peace and order and riotous acts . In footage widely shared on social media, she was shown handcuffed and taken by officers out of her family’s home in Sheikh Jarrah, whose struggle has crystalized Palestinian anger over Israel’s illegal settlement movement.
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June 7, 2021
JERUSALEM: For decades, Sheikh Jarrah was just another neighbourhood in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, but its story has gone viral online since protests flared against the planned expulsion of Palestinians from houses there.
“We have managed. not just to shed light on settlement in Jerusalem but also on the rights of Palestinians to defend themselves, their right to resist the occupier, and their right to their own narrative,” said Muhammad el-Kurd.
The 23-year-old poet and writer, one of those facing the loss of their homes, has worked tirelessly to publicise the issue and in the process gained more than 180,000 Twitter followers and more than half a million on Instagram.
Israeli police on Sunday detained for several hours two prominent activists whose campaign against the threatened expulsion of Palestinian families from homes in the flashpoint Jerusalem neighbourhoo…
For decades, Sheikh Jarrah was just another neighborhood in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, but its story has gone viral online since protests flared against the planned expulsion of Palestinians from houses there.
“We have managed . not just to shed light on settlement in Jerusalem, but also on the rights of Palestinians to defend themselves, their right to resist the occupier and their right to their own narrative,” Muhammad el-Kurd said.
The 23-year-old poet and writer, one of those facing the loss of their homes, has worked tirelessly to publicize the issue and in the process gained more than 180,000 Twitter followers and