Netanyahu faces growing criticism as Palestinian lawmaker removed from Knesset
Prime Minister Netanyahu is facing mounting criticism after a Palestinian member of the Knesset was removed during a speech in which he accused Israel’s leader of prolonging the war in Gaza for political gain.
Head of activist group says Israeli police showed up at his door in middle of night
Alon-Lee Green, the co-director of Jewish-Palestinian grassroots activist group Standing Together, has said Israeli police showed up at his door in the early hours of this morning “to ask me questions and demand that I identify myself”.
“That’s it, just to threaten in the middle of the night. And thanks to Ben-Gvir,” he said, referring to Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.
As we previously reported, Green was among 10 protesters detained by Israeli police on Sunday while trying to march from the southern city of Sderot to Gaza to protest Israel’s war on the Palestinian enclave.
The activists spent two days in detention before being released to house arrest. Standing Together said the arrests were an “outrageous attempt to silence opposition at the exact moment the government is expanding the war”.
Standing Together’s Alon-Lee Green is arrested while protesting near the Israel-Gaza boundary
