Overview

• The Negev district prosecution filed an indictment on Oct. 10 alleging she bit a Ketziot prison guard, causing serious injury.
• Israeli police said she refused to enter a cell before the alleged assault inside the Negev prison.
• Prosecutors also asked the court to order preventive detention to keep her jailed before trial.
• Her detention had been extended by the Beersheba court until Friday, leaving any potential release unresolved.
• She was arrested during Israel’s interception of the Flotilla Global Sumud last week, and police reiterated a pledge to act firmly against harm to officials as the prisons service declined comment.