Tag: Arrests

  • Swedish peace activist arrested, witnesses say charge of assault is ‘baseless’

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 July 2010 Correction, 27 July 2010: Marcus’s surname was originally wrongly spelled ‘Rednanver’ but has now been corrected. A Swedish peace activist was arrested in Hebron last night and stood trial today in Jerusalem. Nursing student Marcus Regnander was accused of assaulting a soldier at a peaceful demonstration in Hebron 10…

  • Seventeen year old from Bil’in arrested in night raid

    Last night the Israeli army carried out a night raid in the West Bank village of Bil’in and arrested a seventeen year old boy. At least 12 Israeli army jeeps entered the village at approximately 1.30 in the morning. Soldiers from two of the jeeps then closed off the house of Ahmed Abdul Fatah Burnat,…

  • Commander and soldier convicted for shooting of bound Palestinian

    Anshel Pfeffer | Ha’aretz 15 July 2010 An Israel Defense Forces court on Thursday convicted a former commander and a soldier involved in shooting a bound Palestinian at close range in the West Bank city of Na’alin two years ago. The affair unfolded after Lt. Col. Omri Burberg was filmed holding the blindfolded and bound…