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Prominent professor faces repeated Israeli interrogations over Gaza war comments
Lawyers have said that Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian – a Palestinian citizen of Israel who is a professor of law and an expert on trauma, state crimes and criminology, surveillance and genocide studies – has been summoned for a third interrogation by Israeli police tomorrow.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested on suspicion of incitement for criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza on April 18. She was detained overnight and released under certain conditions. Following her release, she was summoned for three police interrogations: on April 25, April 28, and now, May 2.
Hadeel Abu-Salih, a lawyer for Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, said Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s legal team advised her not to answer questions on political topics or any questions that exceed the scope approved by the state attorney’s office for this interrogation.
The lawyers further noted that if she is summoned for another interrogation, they would consider legal action to stop Israel’s police from politically persecuting her.
“During the previous interrogations, the police asked Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian illegal questions, which amount to political persecution and violate academic freedom. These police actions amount to an abuse of the criminal process for the purpose of intimidation,” Adalah said in a statement.
During the two, four-hour interrogations, the police asked Shalhoub-Kevorkian about the sources she used when referring to the number of children killed in Gaza since the start of the war, as well as if she still believes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
1,000 Gaza workers in Israel ‘remain missing’: Palestinian rights groups
Palestinian human rights organisations have said that there is no information available about 1,000 workers from the Gaza Strip who were working in Israel on October 7.
The Commission for Detainee’s Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, and the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights said in a joint statement that the number of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were in Israel before October 7 was approximately 10,300.
They added that “3,200 [workers] of them were released at the Kerem Shalom [Karem Abu Salem] crossing at the beginning of November 2023 from the detention centres where they were being held, some still wearing zip ties on their wrists bearing numbers.
“Approximately 6,441 workers were deported to the West Bank, and approximately 1,000 workers remain missing in light of the ongoing crime of forced disappearance against Gaza detainees.”
The organisations said that Israel has so far refused to disclose their whereabouts or information about their well-being, only saying that there are two military camps for Gaza detainees – one near Be’er Sheva, and another near Jerusalem.
Haniyeh’s sister moved to house arrest after being charged with incitement
An Israeli court has ordered the release of the sister of Hamas’s top leader to house arrest after she was indicted for incitement and identification with a “terror group”, Israeli media report.
Sabah Haniyeh, 57, the sister of Ismail Haniyeh, was born in Gaza but has Israeli citizenship and lives in southern Israel. She was arrested in early April, indicted on April 21 and released to house arrest today.
According to the indictment, she sent several messages praising Hamas’s October 7 attacks to WhatsApp groups that seem to include members of the extended Haniyeh family.
Ismail Haniyeh lives in exile in Qatar.
