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Israel puts senior Palestinian politician under ‘administrative detention’

Khalida Jarrar, who is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has been sentenced to six months in Israeli prison without charge and with the possibility of being held indefinitely, her daughter says.

Jarrar was previously elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council (parliament) in 2006.

She was held in administrative detention by Israel between July 2017 and February 2019; and arrested again in October 2019. In March 2021 she was sentenced to two years in prison.

Jenin camp infrastructure destroyed

Nidal Naghnaghieh, who heads the Jenin refugee camp’s high-level committee, says the Israeli army has carried out several raids since October 7, destroying infrastructure in the camp and the city in the occupied West Bank.

“They destroyed the streets, electric poles, water lines, even the monument built for the late [Al Jazeera journalist] Shireen Abu Akleh,” he told Al Jazeera. “UNRWA is working slowly to repair streets, homes and infrastructure. There are many repairs inside the camp since October 7 that have not been completed yet,” he said.

“We call on UNRWA to rebuild the infrastructure and rehabilitate the streets and sewage network as soon as possible, especially since we are in the winter season.”

Israel publishes website depicting October 7 attack

Facing accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as it carries out one of the most destructive military campaigns in modern history, the Israeli government has published a website with gruesome photos from the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel.

Israeli government official Moshik Aviv said that the website will “assist Israel in its goal to remind the world that we are the victim in this unprecedented terror event”.

The website, which is blocked within Israel and comes with a warning of “extreme viewer discretion”, shows photos of slain Israelis, bloody floors, and charred bodies.

Report: ADL will include pro-Palestine rallies in tally of anti-Semitic incidents

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a group that tracks anti-Semitism in the United States, will include pro-Palestine rallies in its tallies of anti-Semitic incidents, according to a report in the US news outlet The Jewish Forward.

While critics have previously said that the ADL fails to adequately distinguish between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism, the report in the Forward says that the ADL has significantly widened its definition to include pro-Palestine rallies that feature “anti-Zionist chants and slogans”.

“The ADL released a report today claiming to find 3,283 incidents of antisemitism since October 7 — but roughly 1,300 of these, or 40 percent, appear to be rallies featuring ‘anti-Zionist chants and slogans,’ events that have not been counted in any previous tally,” Arno Rosenfeld, who covers anti-Semitism for the Forward, wrote in a social media post.