Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Monday, March 8, 2021
Israeli police break up ‘illegal’ East Jerusalem International Women’s Day event
Israel Police officers break up an event at a women’s center in East Jerusalem to mark International Women’s Day, saying it was being held illegally.
“This was a Palestinian Authority event, and illegal by law. The Public Security Ministry issued an order declaring it as such, and police executed the order,” spokesperson Roni Markovitz says.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency reports that the head of the A-Tur Women’s Center, Ikhlas Sayyad, and clothes designer Manal Abu Sbeitan were detained in the raid on an exhibition of traditional Palestinian clothes and objects made by women.
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