Israeli police raided two Educational Bookshop stores in east Jerusalem, ransacked them, confiscated books, and detained the owners, brothers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna

The brother of the owners told Haaretz that police "went through the books with Google Translate and took away anything they didn't like. They even came across the Haaretz newspaper with the picture of the kidnapped people, asked what it was, and said it was incitement. They took every book with the Palestinian flag on it."

On February 10, the police requested an extension of their detention to 8 days at a court hearing. Their detention was extended by one day only. Several diplomats and journalists attended the hearing, due to their acquaintance with the store and its owners, renowned for being a rich source for the study of the Palestinian culture and the history of the Palestinian struggle. This raid led to the detention of his son and brothers, who were later placed under house arrest.

List of confiscated books:

• Lisa Tataki - Living Palestine: Family, Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation
• Sami Adwan - Side by side
• Dan Cohen Sherbok, Dawoud El-Alami - The Palestine Israeli Conflict
• Michael Riordon - Our way to fight: Peace-Work under Siege in Israel-Palestine
• Afzal Huda - Love Wins
• Banksy - Wall and Piece different authors - Profile of an Occupation
• Clare Solomon, Tania Palmier - Springtime: The New Student Rebellions
• Hussein Nashwan - The Memory of Color, Jerusalem with brush of the Palestinian artist
• Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe - Gaza in Crisis
• Kathleen Christison, Bill Christison - Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Persperctives on the Israeli occupation
• Ari Shavit - My Promised Land
• Mohammed Zahid - The Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Succession Crisis: The Politics of Liberalisation and Reform in the Middle East

Second raid and arrest

On March 11, Israeli police raided the Educational Bookshop for the second time in a month, detaining co-owner Imad Muna and seizing around 50 books. Officers allegedly targeted books with Palestinian flags or titles mentioning Palestine, using Google Translate to examine them. Among the seized books were works by Banksy, Ilan Pappé, and Noam Chomsky.

Muna was later released without charge, and most books were returned. Rights groups and intellectuals condemned the raids, calling them an attempt to suppress Palestinian culture. Authorities claim the latest raid followed a complaint about “inciting content” in some books.