State prosecutors indict a minor who crossed the border into Gaza during a demonstration last year at the Erez Crossing.
The defendant, charged with entering a closed military zone, is said to have climbed an electricity pole in Gazan territory and refused to come down,”endangering his own life and the lives of IDF soldiers, due to the risk of sniper fire from Gaza.”
The minor, who resides in central Israel, was participating in a protest numbering some 150 people on the border in May 2024.
This is not the first time that Israelis have been arrested and charged for crossing into the Strip. In March, seven Israeli ultranationalist activists were indicted on the same charges after they built several makeshift wooden structures within Gaza, in a symbolic call for Israelis to resettle the territory.
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