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Several weeks ago, Hanady Halawani was arrested in front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque when she returned to its steps immediately after her six-month ban expired. This was not an isolated incident, but part of a series of arrests and expulsions that have happened to her more than 60 times. Halawani is a “Murabita”, part of an outlawed group of Muslim women (“Murabitat”) with the stated goal of protecting Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, from right-wing Jewish incursions. She has been labelled by the Israeli press as one of the most dangerous Palestinians in Israel and is top of the list o…