Israeli police summons Israeli professor days after release from custody
Two days after being released, Israeli police has summoned Hebrew University professor Nadira Shalhoub-Kevorkian for another interrogation, according to her lawyer Alaa Mahajna. As we previously reported, Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian was released from custody after being arrested on April 18.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a vocal anti-Zionist, was arrested on suspicion of incitement after raising doubts about allegations of sexual assault during the Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7 and for allegedly calling Israelis “criminals”.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. She is also a professor of law and an expert on trauma, state crimes and criminology, surveillance and genocide studies.
Palestinian Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, centre, appears in a Jerusalem court on charges on incitement
Israel claims killing suspect in Bekaa checkpoint stabbing attempt near Lebanon border
The Israeli army has said on X that its forces had killed “a terrorist” who tried to stab Israeli soldiers stationed at the Bekaa checkpoint near the Israeli-Lebanese border.
“The fighters responded by firing and neutralised the terrorist. There are no casualties to our forces,” the statement said.
Israeli warplanes target 3 towns in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military carried out air raids in southern Lebanon’s towns of Naqoura, Majdal Zoun and Aita al-Shaab.
Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil online media outlet shared a photo of the debris of a house in Majdal Zoun and photos of plumes of smoke rising from Naqoura and Aita al-Shaab.
الطيران الحربي الإسرائيلي شن غارة استهدفت الناقورة pic.twitter.com/AObwG7TmHo
— bintjbeil.org (@bintjbeilnews) April 21, 2024
Mapping Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacks
As Israel continues its war on Gaza into a seventh month, in the north, it has been fighting a parallel war along the border with Lebanon that threatens a wider regional conflict.
Since October 8, after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group launched attacks on Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people, Israeli forces have carried out thousands of attacks along the two countries’ 120km (75-mile) border.
According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), Israel, Hezbollah and other armed groups in Lebanon exchanged at least 4,733 attacks across the border from October 7, 2023 to March 15, 2024.
Israel conducted about 83 percent of these attacks, totalling 3,952 incidents, while Hezbollah and other armed groups were responsible for 781 attacks.
