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Middle East Monitor
March 21, 2018
An Israeli court approved today a “conditional release” for the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah. Sheikh Salah's lawyer, Khalid Zabarqeh, told Anadolu Agency that the northern Haifa Magistrates' Court had in principle agreed to a “conditional release until the completion of the trialÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
February 26, 2018
Iraqi said the detainee, from Kafr Kanna town in the Galilee, cannot move around without his wheelchair, but was placed in an inaccessible section in Galboa' prison, in addition to being constantly harassed by the soldiers. The detainee told Iraqi that the only section in the prison is Section 1, as the showerÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
February 26, 2018
Disabled Palestinian prisoners Amer Asaad is on the 12th day of an open hunger strike in protest against the inhuman treatment he has received while incarcerated. The 35-year-old, who is from Kafr Kanna in Israel, was detained in 2012 and sentenced to six and a half years in jail. He has been held in theÃâà...
Newsweek
April 14, 2016
Israel has appointed the first ever Arab police officer to the rank of deputy commissioner, the force's second-highest rank. Jamal Hakrush, a Muslim from the village of Kafr Kanna in Galilee, Israel, was formally appointed to the position in a ceremony on Wednesday attended by Israeli Police CommissionerÃâà...
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
Israeli police shot dead a young Arab citizen in the town of Kafr Kanna in the lower Galilee this past week. Numerous reports have suggested that the victim, Kheir Hamdan, was shot simply because he was an Arab. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemingly conceded the same conclusion whenÃâà...
