The first time Palestinian actress Maisa Abd Elhadi was arrested was just days after the October 7 attacks. At 11 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2023, the police showed up at her home in Nazareth, illegally confiscated her phone, and proceeded to take her to the city’s central police station.
There, she learned that she was being investigated over two posts she had shared on Instagram on October 7. The first showed civilians near a bulldozer at the Gaza fence, which the accompanying text compared to the fall of the Berlin Wall. “There were no armed individuals in the image,” she clarified. The second was a picture of Yaffa Adar, an elderly Israeli woman kidnapped that day, with the caption: “This lady is on the adventure of her life.”….more