Israeli police have arrested a famous ArabIsraeli actress Maisa Abdel Hadion suspicion of “inciting terrorism” after she wrote a Facebook post that referenced attacks by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against Israel on October 7th.
Maisa Abdel Hadi, who lives in the city of Nazareth in northern Israel, was arrested on Monday, police and her lawyers said on Tuesday (24).
She is being held until Thursday because, according to the armed forces, they released a photo of a bulldozer destroying the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel at the start of the Hamas attack that killed more than 1,400 people, most of them According to the authorities, these were civilians.
“Let’s do it Berlin style,” he wrote in the caption, referring to the fall of the wall that separated the two Germanys in 1989.
“She is accused of supporting terrorism,” Jaafar Farah, director of the Mousawat human rights association and one of the lawyers representing the 38yearold actress, told AFP.
Members of Israel’s Arab minority have been fired or imprisoned for posting messages of solidarity with the Gaza Strip on social media, according to multiple witness accounts and Israeli police.
The small area, which has been ruled by Hamas since 2007, has been the target of daily Israeli bombings since the Islamist group’s attack.
Israeli Arabs, who make up a fifth of Israel’s population, are descendants of Palestinians who remained in their country after Israel was founded in 1948.