Lawsuit alleges US citizen added to ‘no-fly’ list for Palestine advocacy
A new lawsuit alleges that two Palestinian American men were profiled by the US government for their pro-Palestine advocacy.
The lawsuit, filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), alleges that Mustafa Zeidan was added to the notorious “no-fly list” after organising community protests in southern California, where he lives.
He had been travelling to Jordan regularly to visit his ailing mother before being denied boarding at Los Angeles International Airport on March 28. He was later informed that he had been added to the list because he had been identified “as an individual who may be a threat to civil aviation or national security”, the lawsuit says.
The claim also says Osama Abu Irshaid, the executive director of Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action), was repeatedly interrogated by federal agents during a recent trip to Jordan.
Beyond the “harassing and intrusive questions”, the agents confiscated his phone, which has never been returned, the suit says.
The lawsuit names US Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas among the defendants.
Israeli army claims Palestinian teen killed near Qalqilya had shot Israeli man
The Israeli military says the 18-year-old Palestinian it killed had opened fire on an Israeli man who entered the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, wounding him and two Palestinians.
It added that its troops “conducted a pursuit after the terrorist and neutralised him adjacent to Qalqilya”.
Earlier, we reported that the Palestinian Health Ministry identified the 18-year-old as Tareq Ziad Abdulraheem Daoud.
Israeli army spokesman says investigating Hamas’s statement on captive killed
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari says the army is investigating a statement by Hamas’s armed wing announcing the death of an Israeli captive in Gaza and the wounding of two others in a separate incident.
“At this point, we do not have any intelligence … that allows us to refute or confirm the claims of Hamas,” Hagari said in a post on X.
