Czech anti-Palestinian activist arrested in Israel

Israeli security forces arrested a Czech pro-Palestinian activist in a raid in the West Bank town of Ramallah in the early hours of Monday, the AFP news agency reported. The woman is believed to be twenty-eight-year old Eva Novakova, who works as a media coordinator for the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement. According to the AFP report Israeli soldiers and immigration police forcibly removed her from her apartment, claiming they were searching the place for weapons. After being interrogated by immigration police, the woman was taken to Tel Aviv airport from where she was to have been deported. The activist’s lawyer stressed that the Israeli immigration police had no authority to be search apartments in areas occupied by the Palestinians.

Author: Sarah Borufka