By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
JERUSALEM ( Worthy News ) – Israeli-Palestinian tensions rose further Monday after Israel ’s new National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, instructed police to remove Palestinian flags from public spaces.
Ben-Gvir’s order followed the release last week of a long-serving Palestinian prisoner, convicted of kidnapping and killing an Israeli soldier in 1983.
The freed man was seen waving a Palestinian flag while receiving a hero’s welcome in his village in northern Israel.Israeli law does not outlaw Palestinian flags, but police and soldiers have the right to remove them in cases where they deem there is a threat to public order.“It cannot be that lawbreakers wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism , so I ordered the removal of flags supporting terrorism from the public space and to stop the incitement against Israel,” Ben-Gvir said.The decision by Ben-Gvir, who oversees the police, was […]
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