A British woman who is married to a Jewish anti-Zionist activist has been convicted of theft in connection with a 2024 incident in which she removed an Israeli hostage poster and threw it in the trash.

Fiona Monro, 58, of Brighton, England, was found guilty of theft, but not convicted of criminal damage in charges stemming from a February 2024 incident in which she took a large laminated poster of Israeli hostage Tzachi Idan that was hanging in a memorial in a public park and disposed of it.

A relative of Idan who lives in a neighboring town, Howe, returned the poster to the memorial site after Monro threw it away. A week later, Monro also wrote the phrase “Pray for the 30,000 murdered Palestinians” on the memorial but was acquitted of charges related to the vandalism, according to Brighton and Hove News.

The incident came at a time when Israeli hostage posters were being vandalized frequently by activists across the globe who said they were protesting the war in Gaza. The war began when Hamas-led terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

During the assault, gunmen stormed the Idan home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, shooting dead the oldest daughter, Maayan, in front of her father. A video, filmed by the terrorists and circulated on social media, showed gunmen standing over the rest of the family as they huddled on the floor of their home. Idan was eventually abducted and killed in Hamas captivity, and his remains........

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