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| Jerusalem Police Battle Protesters, Injure Newsmen | |
| 2014-03-30 | |
| [AnNahar] Israeli police used force on Saturday to break up a Paleostinian protest march in occupied east Jerusalem, injuring several people including two journalists, news photographers said. Several demonstrators and four journalists -- among them a photographer from Agence La Belle France-Presse and another from Rooters -- were slightly injured by projectiles fired by police during the incident, near the walled Old City's Damascus Gate. The AFP photographer, who was hit on the head, was treated in a local hospital and discharged.
It commemorates the day in 1976 when six Arab Israeli protesters were killed by Israeli security forces during mass protests against plans to confiscate Arab land in the northern Galilee region. "The demonstrators began to throw stones at police on the scene," police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP, adding that officers responded with unspecified "riot dispersal means". She said six people were tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! for public disorder offences but said she had no report of any casualties. The Foreign Press Association, which represents the international news media in Israel, has repeatedly complained to Israeli authorities over a string of violent incidents involving security forces and journalists. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Poor planning didn't leave enough time to thaw a babyscicle. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-03-30 07:33 |
| #1 The crowd of "press" was probably larger than that of the "rioters". I would bet the riot couldn't start until the press and their camera's showed up. |
| Posted by: tipover 2014-03-30 00:38 |