Israel-Hamas conflict: Arab-Israeli actor Maisa Abdel Hadi arrested for allegedly 'supporting terrorism'

Arab-Israeli actor Maisa Abdel Hadi has been arrested on suspicion of ‘incitement to terrorism’ over a social media post about Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel. Maisa, who lives in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, is in custody until October 26, police said.

Hadi allegedly posted a picture of a bulldozer breaching the fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel during the October 7 attack by the Islamist militant group Hamas, which Israel says killed more than 1,400 people. The Hamas government in Gaza says more than 5,000 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory strikes on the coastal territory.

‘Let's go Berlin-style,’ she wrote in reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall that partitioned Germany until 1989.
‘She is accused of supporting terrorism,’ her attorney Jaafar Farah, who is also the director of the human rights association Mousawat, told AFP.

Arab Israeli singer Dalal Abu Amneh was also briefly detained over one of her social media posts.
According to rights campaigners and Israeli police, members of Israel's Arab minority and Palestinians in east Jerusalem have been fired, expelled from colleges. and arrested over comments expressing solidarity with Gaza residents since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. Israeli Arabs comprise a fifth of Israel's population.

Indian TV actress Madhura Naik, known for television shows like Hum Ne Li Hai- Shapath and Tumhari Pakhi, has suffered a huge loss in the light of Israel-Palestine conflict. In her Instagram post, Madhura disclosed that her brother-in-law and her cousin sister were brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists.

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