Palestinian’s involuntary return is the sixth in 10 days, says human rights group
By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem, The Independent/UK, Oct 30, 2009
Berlanty Azzam, 21,was handcuffed and blindfolded
Berlanty Azzam, 21, who was studying for a business degree at Bethlehem University, said she was coming home in a shared taxi from a job interview in Ramallah on Wednesday when soldiers at the “Container” checkpoint took her identity card and that of another passenger with a Gaza address.
After six hours of waiting, soldiers told her she would be taken to a detention centre in the southern West Bank, and she was handcuffed and blindfolded, she said.
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Israel deports US journalist
January 20, 2010News editor for Palestinian agency put on flight to New York
Israeli authorities today deported an American journalist who was working as an editor for a Palestinian news agency.
Jared Malsin, who is Jewish and in his late 20s, was detained at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport eight days ago as he returned from a holiday in Prague.
His girlfriend, a Lutheran church volunteer who flew back with him, was deported two days later, but Malsin was held in detention at a cell in the airport while he began a legal challenge to his deportation order.
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