ALBAWABA - A Palestinian beauty shop owner is the talk of the internet among pro-Palestine activists and users after a video of her swarmed social media platforms of Israeli police officers arresting her for speaking up about the Rafah Massacre.
The individual in question is Rasha Kareem who currently resides in the Israeli side of Palestine. She made a social media post on her account expressing sadness and sorrow about what happened to the Palestinians in Rafah amid the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.
This led the Israeli police to tie her wrists with zip ties and her head with a white piece of cloth after they were seen arguing together about the matter angering countless pro-Palestine and human rights activists across social media.
Video: Israeli police arrest Palestinian for speaking about Rafah
One user wrote a caption following the video and said, "This is Rasha. A Palestinian citizen of Israel. She’s a beauty shop owner in the very north of Israel who couldn’t be further from Gaza in Majd al-Krum. Her crime? A social media post expressing sadness and solidarity with Palestinians in Rafah after the tent massacre."
The individual who also shared the video demanded the Israeli police free Rasha as soon as possible and threatened them by saying that more than two million people viewed the video.
Moreover, users took to the video's comment sections. They expressed how "inhumane" and "disrespectful" it was to blindfold someone for standing up for their people referring to it as a "straight-up scene from a mafia movie".
"The blindfold?! So much for "the only democracy in the Middle East"
"Just don’t pretend the Zionist entity is a democracy with freedom of speech. It’s not!"
"The sheer terror of living under these conditions of apartheid. God help her."
Eyes on Rafah and Gaza
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By the time of writing this article, the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, has resulted in the killing of more than 36,000 Palestinians of whom are children (not counting the ones buried under the rubble), as reported by the ministry of health in Gaza.
Additionally, at least 81,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7 were injured due to the constant bombardment from Israel leaving many Gazans homeless, displaced, and malnourished.
