{"id":663519,"date":"2026-10-23T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663519\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:56:08","slug":"irish-man-62-detained-in-west-bank-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663519\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish man (62) detained in West Bank \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 62-year-old Irish man is among a group of activists who have been detained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\">Israeli<\/a> authorities in the West Bank. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">People Before Profit Councillor Conor Reddy told The Irish Times that his constituent Ian Hutcheson was detained while supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/palestinian\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/palestinian\/\">Palestinian<\/a> farmers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said that the activists were in the West Bank to support farmers with the olive harvest amid attacks by Israeli settlers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hutcheson and 10 other solidarity activists from Italy, Germany, the United States, Britain and Australia were arrested on Thursday morning while visiting a Palestinian family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">International observers have said this year\u2019s olive harvest has been one of the most violent in years, with numerous attacks on Palestinian farmers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Dublin North West councillor Reddy said that Ian Hutcheson travelled from Dublin to the West Bank two weeks ago as an act of international solidarity with the people of Palestine as they try to harvest their crops under constant threat of attack by Israeli settlers and police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIan and 10 other solidarity activists were arrested yesterday in the village of Al Buweib while they were visiting a local family. They were not engaged in harvesting or other field action at the time of their arrest and Al Buweib is not in a closed military zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt is outrageous that Ian went to the West Bank to offer support and protection to Palestinians as they harvested their crops, and for this he was arrested and detained and appears set to be deported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Department of Foreign Affairs is aware of this case and is providing consular assistance, a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAs with all consular cases, the Department does not comment on the details of individual cases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 62-year-old Irish man is among a group of activists who have been detained by Israeli authorities in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,3410,43,4268],"class_list":["post-663519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}