PA Arrests Palestinians For Not Condemning Annexation Plan On Israeli TV

By i24 News
Posted on 07/14/20 | News Source: MATZAV

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has arrested at least six Palestinians for speaking their mind on the matter of Israel’s plan to apply its laws to several West Bank areas, the AFP reported Tuesday.

In early June, Channel 13 aired a report by Tzvi Yehezkeli, a prominent Israeli journalist and documentarist, which saw Yehezkeli approach people in the streets of West Bank communities and ask them what they thought of the annexation.

Some of the people he approached said they were hoping they could get Israeli citizenship and lashed out at the PA as a “corrupt” entity that “has failed.”

“I want an Israeli identity card,” one Palestinian is heard saying. Another stated that he didn’t see “Israelis as enemies — their government is the enemy”. And a third said he “chose Israel” and wasn’t afraid to speak out publicly.

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