WEST BANK: Palestinians, peace activists clash with West Bank settlers near Hebron

Record ID: 561791

  • Title: WEST BANK: Palestinians, peace activists clash with West Bank settlers near Hebron
  • Date: 11th May 2009
  • Summary: NORTH HEBRON, WEST BANK (MAY 8, 2009) (REUTERS) FIELD NORTH OF HEBRON PALESTINIANS AND PEACE ACTIVISTS CARRYING CARDBOARD PANELS NEAR SETTLEMENT ACTIVIST PUSHING SETTLER WHO SAT ON CARDBOARD WALL, ANOTHER SETTLER SPEAKING ON MOBILE PHONE AND CALLING FOR REINFORCEMENTS PALESTINIANS CARRYING CARDBOARD PANEL, SETTLERS ATTEMPTING TO STOP THEM ISRAELI SETTLERS SCUFFLE WITH PEACE ACTIVISTS PALESTINIAN USES A HAMMER TO POUND NAIL INTO PROTEST SHACK, IMITATING JEWISH SETTLEMENT PALESTINIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE ACTIVISTS CHANTING WHILE LINKING ARMS IN FRONT OF PROTEST SHACK ISRAELI SETTLERS CHANTING PEACE ACTIVIST WATCHING AND SOLDIERS IN THE BACKGROUND ISRAELI SETTLERS STANDING PALESTINIAN PUTTING PALESTINIAN FLAG OVER CARDBOARD STRUCTURE ISRAELI SETTLER PUTS HAND OVER CAMERA PALESTINIANS AND PEACE ACTIVISTS TALKING TO ISRAELI SOLDIERS ISRAELI SETTLER SPITS ON CAMERA AND CAMERA CREW ACTIVIST PUTTING A NAIL INTO STRUCTURE PALESTINIANS, ACTIVISTS AND SETTLERS CLASH, ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN THE MIDST ISRAELI SETTLER READING A PRAYER BOOK MORE OF SCUFFLES, ISRAELI SOLDIERS PUSHING AND SHOVING ISRAELI PEACE ACTIVISTS ISRAELI SETTLER SETTING TORCH ON FIRE AND THROWING IT ON CARDBOARD STRUCTURE PALESTINIAN TAKING TORCH AND THROWING IT ON THE GROUND ISRAELI SETTLERS BURNING PALESTINIAN FLAG ISRAELI SETTLER PUSHING PEACE ACTIVIST IN FACE FIGHTING AND SCUFFLES, ISRAELI SOLDIERS FIRE A SHOT PROTESTERS RUNNING AWAY ISRAELI SOLDIER ARRESTING PALESTINIAN ARRESTED PALESTINIAN BEING WALKED AWAY ISRAELI SOLDIERS ON SITE
  • Embargoed: 26th May 2009 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA3GOVEH3X8TPQP6J9O2II5TPXC
  • Story Text: Scuffles ensued after Palestinians and Israeli peace activists protested on Friday (May 8) near a temporary structure erected on a hill north of the West Bank city of Hebron.
    The peace activists attempted to set up a symbolic shelter made of cardboard panels and placed a Palestinian flag on top in a gesture of protest.
    Settlers arrived at the scene and tried to stop the protesters.
    Reuters video from the scene showed settlers attempting to set the structure on fire and burning a Palestinian flag. In further footage an Israeli settler is seen trying to prevent video being shot and spitting at the camera.
    Scuffles ensued between the two groups, who were then dispersed by Israeli soldiers who fired tear gas and arrested five activists. An Israeli army spokesperson said that the area was declared a closed military zone.
    Hebron is the second-largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, which Israel captured along with Gaza in the 1967 war. It is also home to several hundred hardline Jewish settlers whose tiny enclave abuts the Cave of the Patriarchs, a site holy to Muslims and Jews alike, and is closely guarded by Israeli forces.
    Up to 29 Palestinians are believed to have died and 125 injured in the gun attack by Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein on Muslim worshippers in the mosque at the Machpelah Cave in 1994.
    Some 650 Jewish settlers live in fortified enclaves guarded by Israeli troops in Hebron, a city of 180,000 Palestinians, and the city has long been a flashpoint.
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