ISRAEL: SECURITY POLICE MOVE INTO EAST JERUSALEM AND IRAQI JEWS DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE ISRAELI PARLIAMENT

Record ID: 399602

  • Title: ISRAEL: SECURITY POLICE MOVE INTO EAST JERUSALEM AND IRAQI JEWS DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE ISRAELI PARLIAMENT
  • Date: 28th August 1969
  • Summary: POLICE ENTERING DAMASCUS GATE; MOVING DOWN STREETS; PROTESTORS MARCHING ON PARLIAMENT; ENTERING PARLIAMENT. Initials SAW/VS/CT/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th September 1969 13:00
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  • Location: ISRAEL, JERUSALEM
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVAE5QV4E18GQXTW7FQ8LRACYUW9
  • Story Text: ISRAELI SECURITY POLICE MOVED INTO EAST JERUSALEM TO PREVENT VIOLENCE TODAY (THURSDAY) AND IRAQI JEWS MARCHED ON THE ISRAELI PARLIAMENT TO PROTEST AGAINST THE HANGINGS IN BAGHDAD.

    HELPED BY BORDER POLICE THE SECURITY FORCES MOVED INTO STRATEGIC POSITIONS THROUGHOUT THE OLD CITY TO PREVENT YOUTHS ASSEMBLING AND DEMONSTRATING AGAINST THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE FIRE LAST WEEK.

    MEANWHILE, JEWS WHO HAD FORMERLY LIVED IN IRAQ MARCHED TO THE ISRAELI PARLIAMENT WHICH WAS MEETING TO PROTEST THE HANGINGS IN IRAQ.

    SHOUTING SLOGANS CONDEMNING THE IRAQI HANGINGS, THE DEMONSTRATORS ASSEMBLED OUTSIDE THE PARLIAMENT BEFORE CROSSING THE FORECOURT OF THE KNESSET IN SILENCE. INSIDE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, MRS GOLDA MEIR HAD CRITICISED THE UNITED NATIONS FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE THE SITUATION OF JEWS IN ARAB COUNTRIES. SHE SAID THAT THE RIGHTS OF JEWS HAD BEEN PUBLICLY TRAMPLED ON AND CALLED ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER WORLD BODIES TO TAKE URGENT ACTION TO HELP JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ARAB COUNTRIES.
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