‘The reaction is extreme’: Palestinians fear arrest if they voice sympathy for Gaza civilians

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Dua Abu Sneineh was shocked when a group of police officers – between 10 and 15, she said – barged into her home in East Jerusalem early on October 23. “I was not even considering for a moment that they would be coming for me,” she told CNN. But the police did come for her.

Abu Sneineh, 22, said she was told she was being arrested and asked to hand in her phone. “When I asked why, started pushing me and snatched my phone out of my hand,” she said. The officer checked Abu Sneineh’s phone for TikTok or Facebook – she doesn’t have either — then checked her Snapchat account, the only social media she uses. “ noticed that I hadn’t posted anything. Then she went to my WhatsApp… I had posted a verse from the Quran, and that turned out to be what they were after.

” Abu Amneh, who is 40, was held for two days, then released on bail on October 18 to house arrest, Baker told CNN. She has not been charged with any crime but has been banned from speaking about the war in Gaza for 45 days, Baker added. CNN has repeatedly asked the Israel Police for comment on Abu Amneh’s case but has not received any response. Abu Amneh has spent the past two weeks holed up in her parent’s house, even though her house arrest has ended.

 

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