{"id":3639,"date":"2025-02-10T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/israeli-police-raid-renowned-palestinian-bookstores-in-occupied-east-jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:23:45","slug":"israeli-police-raid-renowned-palestinian-bookstores-in-occupied-east-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/israeli-police-raid-renowned-palestinian-bookstores-in-occupied-east-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli police raid renowned Palestinian bookstores in occupied East Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the owners and his nephew, according to their family members. <\/p>\n

CCTV footage shared by the owners, four brothers from the Muna family, shows police officers putting books in trash bags at one of the branches of the Educational Bookshop, a decades-old respected institution with Arabic- and English-language branches. <\/p>\n

Photos shared by Muna of the Arabic-language store show books, notebooks and writing materials scattered on the ground. <\/p>\n

Israeli police said in a statement Monday that two people were arrested on suspicion of \u201cselling books containing incitement and support for terrorism.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspects who allegedly sold the books were taken into custody by police detectives,\u201d the police spokesperson\u2019s unit said. <\/p>\n

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Images from the aftermath of the raid show items scattered on the floor.<\/span> <\/div>
Iyad Muna<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Different areas of the stores were raided, including the children’s book section.<\/span> <\/div>
Iyad Muna<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Israeli police said that \u201cdetectives encountered numerous books containing inciteful material with nationalist Palestinian themes\u201d in the stores. <\/p>\n

Among them was a children\u2019s coloring book titled \u201cFrom the River to the Sea.\u201d The expression is politically controversial in Israel. Some Palestinians use the phrase in support of a homeland between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, but many Jews regard it as a call for Israel\u2019s destruction. <\/p>\n

The Educational Bookshop was established in 1984 on the central Salah el Dein street in East Jerusalem. The original branch sells Arabic books, while the English-language store opened years later is frequented by Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners alike. <\/p>\n

The group \u201cThe Time Has Come\u201d, which lobbies for peace between Jews and Palestinians, said the bookstore and its people \u201care an important part of the shared future we envision for Jerusalem. The arrest and confiscation not only harm the right to free expression and the freedom of information but also place the city\u2019s future on the brink.\u201d <\/p>\n

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Territories, said she was \u201cshocked by the raid\u201d on the bookstores, which she called \u201can intellectual lighthouse and family-run gem resisting Palestinian erasure under apartheid.\u201d <\/p>\n

Albanese also urged the international community in Jerusalem to \u201cshow up, stand with the Muna family, and protect this vital hub.\u201d <\/p>\n

Correction: This article previously referred to \u201cThe Time Has Come\u201d group as \u201cAd Kan.\u201d The two groups are separate entities, and the comments in this article are those of \u201cThe Time Has Come.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n

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