Police arrest ultra-Orthodox journalist Israel Frey after receiving complaints about several of his tweets that were seen as inciting Palestinian terror against Israelis.
Frey is detained after he refused a police summons to come in for questioning.
In recent months Frey tweeted several times after attacks.
In a tweet after Sgt. Noa Lazar, 18, was shot and killed at a checkpoint near the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, Frey said that “attacks on security forces are not terror.”
Sgt. Noa Lazar, 18, who was killed in a shooting attack in East Jerusalem on October 8, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
In another tweet, he praised a Palestinian who attempted an attack in Jaffa for his “restraint” in not killing innocent Israelis on his way there from Nablus in the West Bank, and said he “deserved a medal.”
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