East Jerusalem fracas leads to heavy clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians
Six Border Police officers hurt by stone-throwers, Palestinian women suffer gas inhalation after forces allegedly fire tear gas into homes.
By Liel Kyzer and Nir Hasson Tags: East Jerusalem Israel newsPalestinian protesters and Border Police officers engaged in heavy clashes late Sunday near a Jewish enclave in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
The clashes began with a fracas between some 150 protesters and the settlers' security guards, according to Palestinian sources, and spiraled into an exchange of stone throwing on the part of the demonstrators and tear gas being fired by the Israeli forces.
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Palestinian youths throw stones at Israeli military vehicle in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, in May 2010. |
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Some Palestinian witnesses said that the Israeli forces also used live fire to disperse protesters, who were throwing firebombs at a Jewish-inhabited apartment building.
Six Border Police officers were wounded when hit by stones, and Palestinian witnesses said dozens of women and children suffered from tear gas inhalation after the Israeli forces began firing into homes.
Protests in the neighborhood have been a regular event in recent months, but picked up speed last week after Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat approved the demolition of 22 illegally built Arab homes in the neighborhood to make room for a for a tourist park.
The plan stipulates that all homes west of the neighborhood's narrow main drag will be demolished, and all those east of it spared.
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E. Jeruselam is illegally occupied territory. The UN security council has confirmed this with resolutions. Keep resisting and eventually the world will act and force Israel to obey international law.
Why did the police fire tear-gas into people's homes? Why did they use live fire..? Seems to me the most violent ones here are the police. I would'nt be surprised it this was escalated deliberately to draw attention away from the news of the E Jerusalem Master Plan just released. The usual policy. Or perhaps the anger is due to the fact that 10 members of the Knesset have written a letter volunteering their services to help the settlers evict E Jerusalem Palestinians from their home.
The left wing Israeli' government gave guns and lands to the Arabs. Then the Arabs killed the Jews. Then they blamed it on the right wing. Because they are retarded. All the recent problems that Israel has (including suicide bombings and rocket attacks) were created by the left wing.
THESE CLASHES OF PALESTINIANS & POLICE ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR ... TO ATTACK POLICE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.. THEY SHOULD BE FINED & PLACED IN JAIL IF THEY CANNOT RESPECT THE LAW I AM APPALLED THEIR PARENTS ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE THESE VIOLENT ASSAULTS...
Surely the most moral army in the world was provoked.
Why not build a tourist park in Gaza too...
we decided not to build one in gaza! to many arabs!!!!! bad ambiance..........
The Palestinian squatters should be removed and the illegal structures destroyed. The land is owned by the landlord, who sadly has to hire security guards to do the work of the authorities.
500.000 "settlers" and their infrastructure?
Ah-ugh, let the appeasements commence!
Instead of evicting people and fighting, erect buildings over older buildings to house people. They can be held up by steel and elevated. Cities in the air. Cities don't always have to be old buildings sitting on the ground. Maybe that way, people in the future won't fight over land.
Some of your ideas seem to be pulled from out of the air or out of you ass.
Paliwood script
Now...Israel can do anything it wants, and you will believe their account and not believe the Palestinian account. A wonderful excercise in rationalizing the behavior of the Israeli Occupation.
You can add in the same movie studio the Mohammed Al-Dura episode with screenplay approved by a french reporter.
your enire stafs speciaaly akiva and youssi sarid and avraham gour AND EVRY BODY YOU KNOW should go to help of arabs why are you sitting still?
An estimated 500 people marched and the police stayed away from what you call "the main drag", so the atmosphere was relaxed if fervent (their situation is dire with subsidence due to excavations and settlers tunneling under their own homes in the Yemenite quarter causing serious damage to roads and Arab homes). Why didn't you also report that, Haaretz? When the police stays away, Arabs and Jews have no problem joining hands and fighting injustice in Jerusalem.
YNet reports that witnesses said private security guards tried to get into AbuNab, the synagogue where settlers are threatening to evict the inhabitants. When they found it locked up they broke the windows and sprayed tear-gas in.
...settlers in Silwan, as every where else, behave provocatively and demeaningly... like kings-of-the-coop...