[Onthebarricades] ISRAEL/PALESTINE: Small anti-occupation protest in Tel Aviv

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Middle East News
Israeli activists protest against 40 years of occupation (Extra)



Jun 5, 2007, 11:27 GMT 


Tel Aviv - Some 300 members of the Israeli Peace Now organization and supporters protested in Hebron Tuesday against 40 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank. 

The protesters held up signs saying 'Evacuate all settlements' and 'Enough wars,' as some 30 Jewish settlers held a counter- demonstration in the divided West Bank city, calling the activists 'traitors' and a 'knife in the nation's back.' 

Israeli media reported Palestinian youths threw stones at buses transporting the Peace Now protesters as they were leaving Hebron, where several hundred settlers live in a small enclave surrounded by an estimated 130,000 Palestinians, Israeli media reported. 

The protest was held on the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War, which erupted on June 5, 1967 and during which Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip from Egypt and the Golan Heights from Syria. 

Housing the tomb of the religious patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob accoding to tradition, Hebron is one of the four holiest cities in Judaism. 

The Jewish community which lived there was driven out by local Arabs in riots in 1929 and the current Jewish settlement there was re-established after the 1967 war. 

Its current settler population however is considered among the most fanatic in the West Bank. 


© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur 
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