An Irish woman has been detained by Israel in the West Bank, according to an activist group.
Máire ní Mhurchú, known as D Murphy, (aged 70) was detained by Israeli police on Saturday in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank, according to the International Solidarity Movement, the Palestinian anti-occupation group which the Irish woman has been volunteering with since May.
Originally from Douglas in Cork but living in Swansea, Wales, Murphy was arrested alongside Swedish activist, Susanne Björk (aged 48), in Khalet al-Daba’a, a small Palestinian village which was largely demolished by Israeli forces in early May.
After Israeli soldiers ordered the activists to leave, the female…