Israeli police mistakenly arrested a Palestinian man after they thought he had published a Facebook post saying “hurt them” when he originally wrote “Good morning”, a media report said. The man, a construction worker, was arrested “on suspicion of incitement” and released shortly after the assumption turned out to be false. “No Arabic-speaking officer read the post prior to the arrest, which was carried out by officers who relied solely on Facebook’s automatic translation,” Haaretz newspaper was cited as saying. The report in Times of Israel said that there is only a single letter’s difference between the colloquial Arabic phrase for “good morning to you all” and “hurt them”. The police came to know the reality after they interrogated him and released him after realising their mistake.

Source: Hindustan Times October 23, 2017 05:48 UTC