Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmed Muna were held overnight on charges of “violating public order” after the Educational Bookstore shops were ransacked. Images on social media showed piles of books swept on to the floor, and a selection of others that had been confiscated.
They were due to appear in court in Jerusalem on Monday morning. A crowd of demonstrators gathered outside in support. “No to censorship, No to book bans,” read one placard.
“They took every book that had the Palestinian flag on it,” one of the men’s brothers told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He shared an image of books that had been seized by police and later returned. {read}