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File photo of a Palestinian protester by Damascus Gate in East
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by IMEMC & Agencies

Occupied Jerusalem - Israeli soldiers and police officers kidnapped on Wednesday evening [November 6 2013] 25 young Palestinian men and women, active in social network sites, exposing Israeli violations.

Head of the Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Nasser Qous, said that the soldiers invaded a large number of internet coffee shops, and computer stores in the occupied city, searched them and kidnapped the 25 Palestinians.

Abu Qous added that seven young women were among the kidnapped, and that the soldiers released 15 of the kidnapped later on.

The Police in the occupied city claims the kidnapped Palestinians conducted “incitement” against the army.

The remaining ten Palestinians will be sent to the District Court in Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM, November 7, 2013 (WAFA) – Israeli police rounded up 25 young Palestinian social media activists after raiding their homes in various neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, Nasser Qous, head of the Jerusalem chapter of the Palestinian Prisoner Club, said Thursday.

He told WAFA that police raided the homes of these activists, arrested them on charges of incitement through their writing on Facebook and seized their computers.

Police later released 15, including all the woman activists, and kept 10, whom they said will be brought to court.

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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police detained 25 Palestinian social media activists in East Jerusalem on Thursday, a prisoners rights group said.

Nasser Qous, head of the Jerusalem branch of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, told official news agency Wafa that Israeli forces raided the homes of 25 Palestinian activists and detained them on charges of "incitement" due to their posts on Facebook.

Israeli police also seized their computers.

Fifteen of the activists were later released and 10 will be brought before an Israeli court, Qous said.

In October, Haifa resident Razi al-Nabulsi, 23, was arrested and kept under house arrest for a week as a result of Facebook posts Israeli authorities argued constituted "incitement."

Lawyer Aram Mahameed explained that the charges stemmed from "a number of comments on al-Nabulsi's Facebook page concerning issues like normalization (with the State of Israel), as well as the Prawer Plan," a proposed Israeli plan that if carried out with displace 40,000 Bedouins from the southern Negev.

Reporters Without Borders ranked Israel 112th in the world for press freedom in its 2013 report, arguing that while Israeli journalists enjoy freedom of expression, there are major structural barriers related to military control and security issues that prevent a free press more generally.