Registered a concentration in front of the Jerusalem Court to which they were transferred to claim their release
Madrid, Feb. 10 (Europa Press) –
Israel’s Security Forces have arrested two Palestinian booksellers in Jerusalem, supposedly selling books that “contained incitement and support for terrorism”, a fact that has caused a demonstration in front of the headquarters of a city court to demand liberation of both.
The Israeli police have indicated in a brief message in their account in the social network X that the agents “arrested two residents of Jerusalem this suspects of selling books that contained incitement and support for terrorism in bookstores”, including a children’s coloring book titled ‘From the river to the sea’.
Sources cited by the Palestinian news agency WAFA have indicated that the two detainees are the Mahmud and Ahmed Muna brothers, owners of the Bookshop Educational Bookstore, located on Saladino Street in Jerusalem East. Agents have also seized dozens of books related to Palestine.
The arrest of the two booksellers has caused a protest in front of the Court of Jerusalem to which they have been transferred, where an view is being held after the police asked that they could remain eight days in custody while the relevant investigations were carried out.
The parliamentarian Ayman Odé, one of those present, has denounced that “there is a Palestinian nation” and has accused the Israeli authorities of “trying to crush that idea.” “It has reached the point where raids are carried out in bookstores,” he lamented in statements granted to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.
For his part, Germany’s ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, has expressed his “concern” for the arrest of the booksellers. “I, like many diplomats, enjoy looking for books in Educational Bookshop.
The bookstore was founded in 1984 and currently organizes book presentations, colloquiums, movies and other cultural activities, according to its website, where it emphasizes that “it is a well -established bookstore focused on the culture of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. “
“The books are generally on research and published by highly respected institutions and editors around the world. Our collection of books also includes a selection of Arab literature, guides, dictionaries and textbooks of Arabic,” he says, before adding that It also sells maps, magazines and newspapers.
The event takes place a week after the Israeli security forces closed a bookstore in the Jan al Zeit market, in the old city of Jerusalem, and stopped their owner, Hisham al Akramaui, also with the argument that he sold books With incendiary content.
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