Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire has been sent to an Israeli jail after she refused to go back upon being denied entry to Tel Aviv, Israeli officials say.
Maguire from Ireland was blocked from entering Israel and arrested at an airport in Tel Aviv on Tuesday because she had taken part in an attempt to break the crippling Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli authorities, however, could not manage to send her back to Britain.
The 66-year old activist is now fighting a legal battle over her right to enter Israel and would challenge the ruling at a full court hearing in Tel Aviv on Friday morning.'
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