West Bank & Jerusalem
Israeli forces detain Palestinian activist Issa Amro for hours
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Israeli forces detained Palestinian activist Issa Amro on Friday and held him incommunicado for seven hours on suspicion of being too close to a settlement, according to a human rights lawyer cited by Middle East Eye. The circumstances of his detention and the specific location where he was held were not detailed in the initial report.
Amro is a prominent Palestinian activist known for documenting Israeli settlement expansion and organizing nonviolent resistance in the West Bank.
