Vigil for Irishman arrested in West Bank

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has organised a vigil outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin this evening in protest at the arrest of an Irish activist during a demonstration near the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday.

25-year-old Salah Afifi, an architect from Ranelagh in Dublin, was arrested by Israeli police while participating in a peaceful protest at the Huwara Junction against the Israeli curfew of Palestinian towns and cities.