US activist jailed during Jerusalem settler takeover

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Ahlam Mohsen, 21, was arrested and was awaiting deportation for allegedly attacking a police officer while a guest in the Al-Kurd home as it was taken over by Israeli settlers on Tuesday.

Some 30 settlers were seen entering the house and throwing the family's furniture into the street. The settlers refused to leave the building and Israeli police blocked members of the Al-Kurd family from entering the area. Witnesses also reported heated arguments between police and Palestinian residents.

...“The Israeli police were violently pushing an elderly Palestinian woman. So I stepped in front of them. They told me to move and when I refused they started forcefully pushing me. Then they grabbed me and carried me into a police van," Mohsen told the group from prison.

"While I was waiting at the Israeli Ministry of Interior, the police officers kept telling each other that I was a ‘dirty Arab’ and introducing me as 'Osama Bin Laden’s sister'. One of them threatened to ‘break my head.’ None of the other non-violent demonstrators were targeted; the way they treated me, it’s obvious that I was arrested because I’m of Arab descent," she said.

A CNN cameraperson caught the takeover on film. Full story