Anger at Israeli Detention Of Palestinian Activist
Linah Alsaafin reports on last week's arrest of Palestinian activist Hasan Karajah by Israeli forces.
On Wednesday, Jan. 23, the Karajah family woke up at around 2:30 a.m. to the sound of explosions.
An Israeli military unit had completely surrounded the Karajah home and had just blown the front door off. Two other units would arrive, before all of the soldiers withdrew just before 4:00 a.m. with the oldest Karajah son, 29-year-old Hasan, blindfolded and handcuffed, in tow.
Muhannad Karajah, 26, Hasan’s younger brother and a lawyer, described how the first Israeli unit rounded up the family before separating them into two rooms according to gender.
“The soldiers entered the room where my 7-year-old sister, Baghdad, was sleeping,” he recounts. “She woke up to find soldiers with their flashlights and guns aimed at her.”
