Palestine’s George Floyd Arrested for Anti-Zionist Revelations
AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – Palestinian activist Khairi Hanoun was arrested on Monday by Zionist troops, several sources told AFP, weeks after footage of a trooper kneeling on his neck during a protest sparked outrage.
On Monday, Hanoun was arrested by the occupying regime’s army at his home in Anabta, between Nablus and Tulkarm, Palestinian security services said in a statement.
According to the statement, he was arrested to "put an end to his interviews with the media in which he speaks of the brutal aggression he has recently faced”.
Hanoun, in his late sixties, has regularly taken part in protests against the proposed extension of an illegal Zionist settlement near Tulkarm in the north of the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by the Zionist regime since 1967.
In early September, he attended a rally of dozens of people at a road bordering the village of Shufah, between Nablus and Tulkarm, during which clashes broke out with Zionist troops.
In video footage, Hanoun is pushed by a Zionist trooper to the ground, putting his knee on his neck as he secured his hands with a plastic tie.
Later, AFP journalists on the scene saw Hanoun, standing with his hands handcuffed behind his back, appear to step back from a trooper who grabbed him and shoved him to the ground, placing his knee on his neck again.
The footage of the incident had circulated on social media and Palestinian television channels, several with the hashtag #PalestinianLivesMatter.
They compared the image with George Floyd, an unarmed African American who was filmed with a police officer pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck until he died.
A day earlier, a Palestinian with the Islamic resistance movement Hamas was killed after a tunnel collapsed in the north of the Gaza Strip, the group and medical sources said.
Medical sources said that Khalil Lubbad, 27, from Jabalia refugee camp, was brought dead to the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza Strip, as well as three others wounded in the same place.
The tunnels are the only lifeline for the Palestinians in the coastal enclave who are living under crippling siege by the Zionist regime since 2007.
On Monday, Hanoun was arrested by the occupying regime’s army at his home in Anabta, between Nablus and Tulkarm, Palestinian security services said in a statement.
According to the statement, he was arrested to "put an end to his interviews with the media in which he speaks of the brutal aggression he has recently faced”.
Hanoun, in his late sixties, has regularly taken part in protests against the proposed extension of an illegal Zionist settlement near Tulkarm in the north of the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by the Zionist regime since 1967.
In early September, he attended a rally of dozens of people at a road bordering the village of Shufah, between Nablus and Tulkarm, during which clashes broke out with Zionist troops.
In video footage, Hanoun is pushed by a Zionist trooper to the ground, putting his knee on his neck as he secured his hands with a plastic tie.
Later, AFP journalists on the scene saw Hanoun, standing with his hands handcuffed behind his back, appear to step back from a trooper who grabbed him and shoved him to the ground, placing his knee on his neck again.
The footage of the incident had circulated on social media and Palestinian television channels, several with the hashtag #PalestinianLivesMatter.
They compared the image with George Floyd, an unarmed African American who was filmed with a police officer pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck until he died.
A day earlier, a Palestinian with the Islamic resistance movement Hamas was killed after a tunnel collapsed in the north of the Gaza Strip, the group and medical sources said.
Medical sources said that Khalil Lubbad, 27, from Jabalia refugee camp, was brought dead to the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza Strip, as well as three others wounded in the same place.
The tunnels are the only lifeline for the Palestinians in the coastal enclave who are living under crippling siege by the Zionist regime since 2007.