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16 Arrested In Nazareth Protests Against IDF Action In Gaza
[Ynet] Thousands take the streets, hundreds throw rocks at police who respond with tear gas, stun grenades.Thousands of Paleostinians erupted into the streets in Nazareth Monday in protest against the IDF's military actions in the Gazoo Strip. 16 were enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! after hundreds emerged from the angery crowd to throw rocks at police forces. The rioters had also blocked off a main road through the city and besides the arrests, police responded to the violence with tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd. The protest was organized by The High Follow-Up Committee for Arab citizens of Israel who had previously announced a general strike on Monday for the entire Arab sector in solidarity with residents of Gazoo. Israelis in favor of the IDF's military action in the Strip also made an appearance Monday evening when some 200 people showed support in front of the Kiryah army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Monday's protests in Nazareth follow more than a week of street violence in Israel and the West Bank, but also across the region and even in large cities across the world.
At the same time, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman urged Israeli citizens to permanently boycott any store owner taking part in the demonstrative measure. “I call to everyone: Do not purchase anything more at shops and businesses owned by those who are participating in the Arab community’s general strike,” Liberman wrote on his Facebook page. Some 200 protesters hurled stones at coppers, while others attempted to block roads at the scene, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. Police responded with water cannons and stun grenades, arresting 10 people after the 3,000-strong demonstration in Israel’s largest Arab city. Demonstrators held up placards reading, “The Israeli army commits genocide in Gazoo,” an AFP correspondent said. Later, at a cop shoppe, a fight broke out between protesters, including three Knesset politicians, and police. Involved in the scuffle were Balad MKs Hanin Zoabi and Basel Ghattas, and Hadash head Mohammad Barakeh. Liberman’s call for a boycott of the store owners was heavily criticized by Meretz party chairwomen Zahava Gal-on, who accused the foreign minister of racism. “Once again, the foreign minister, who should be the presenter of the State of Israel, shows his ugly, racist face,” she said. “It is the right of Arab citizens of Israel, just like any other citizen, to express solidarity with their brothers who suffer in Gazoo and with the suffering of innocent people in Gazoo.” There have been several protests among Israeli Arabs against Israel’s two-week-old operation in Gazoo. On Friday evening, thousands of demonstrators in Haifa, led by controversial Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, clashed with police as they attempted to block several roads in the coastal city during a rally against the IDF’s ongoing ground incursion in the Gazoo Strip. A number of coppers and protesters, among them Balad MK Jamal Zahalka, who also took part in the rally, were lightly injured and received medical treatment at the spot. Some of the protesters were reported to have waved Paleostinian flags as they rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud welcoming Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rocket fire at Tel Aviv. The demonstrators also shouted out slogans against Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Thirty protesters were locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , including Zoabi, who was handcuffed by coppers at the site. She was released from police custody a short while later. Police maintained the rally was unauthorized, as the demonstrators had failed to alert authorities of its existence. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-07-22 |
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