- Title: Hundreds gather in pro and anti-Palestinian Authority protests
- Date: 3rd July 2021
- Summary: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (JULY 3, 2021) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY AND PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS AFTER ABBAS' MOST PROMINENT CRITIC DIED IN CUSTODY AFTER HE WAS ARRESTED BY PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CARRYING SIGNS READING (Arabic): "ABBAS LEAVE." PROTESTERS GATHERED VIEW OF PROTESTERS GATHERED PROTESTERS CHANTING VIEW OF PROTESTERS GATHERED HEBRON, WEST BANK (JULY 3, 2021) (REUTERS) DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWING PROTESTERS GATHERED IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS (MUTE) PROTESTERS PLAYING DRUMS DURING PROTEST AND CARRYING PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY'S FLAG VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS GATHERED MAN HOLDING GUN DURING PROTEST PROTESTERS JUMPING AND CHANTING DURING PROTEST MAN GIVING SPEECH DURING PROTEST VIEW OF PROTESTERS GATHERED DRONE SHOWING PROTESTERS GATHERED IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS (MUTE)
- Embargoed: 17th July 2021 19:35
- Keywords: Abbas Nizar Banat PLO Palestinians protest
- Location: RAMALLAH, HEBRON, WEST BANK
- City: RAMALLAH, HEBRON, WEST BANK
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: Middle East,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001EKADZRB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in protest on Saturday (July 3) in the West Bank city of Ramallah, calling for the departure of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after the death of a political activist critical of Abbas during his arrest last week.
While dozens of Palestinians gathered in the West Bank city of Hebron in support of Abbas.
Nizar Banat had been arrested by PA forces who broke into a relative's house where he was staying in the early hours of Thursday and hit him repeatedly with a metal rod before arresting him, according to Banat's family.
Banat's death has sparked anger in the occupied West Bank and calls from the international community for an inquiry.
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