A reporter who is currently working for NBC News was arrested in Jerusalem last week for allegedly praising Hamas and celebrating the terror group’s Oct. 7 terror attacks on social media as they were happening.
Those attacks left at least 1,200 Israelis dead and hundreds more were kidnapped.
According to The Jerusalem Post, 45-year-old freelance reporter Marwat Al-Azza was taken into custody last Friday.
She is described by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as a Palestinian residing in East Jerusalem.
She had been wanted for questioning by police since last month over pro-Hamas Facebook posts. Last week, prosecutors granted police that request.
Haaretz reported that Al-Azza praised Hamas on her Facebook page while Israeli citizens were being massacred.
The newspaper, Israel’s oldest publication still in print, reported:
“On October 7, Al-Azza put up posts on her personal Facebook account allegedly supporting Hamas terrorism.
“She wrote on the kidnapping of an elderly woman from a Gaza border community, ‘It’s killing me, it’s a black comedy, the old woman looks happy, a bit of action before she dies.’”
Haaretz further reported in other posts on her Facebook page, Al-Azza portrayed the ongoing massacre as a film in which Hamas militants were the stars.
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