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December 20, 2009 at 7:08 am
27 Demonstrators Arrested at Protest Against Eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem Neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah
Israeli police arrested twenty-seven Palestinians and Israeli activists in Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, 18 December afternoon for refusing to end a rally against the eviction of Palestinian residents in the East Jerusalem neighborhood.
Several hundred protestors arrived to the neighborhood, where a new settlement is displacing Palestinian families the area, marching in small groups from the center of West Jerusalem. Several marchers were arrested by the police before they arrived to Sheikh Jarrah.
In Sheikh Jarrah, the activists sat on the ground and began shouting towards: “Palestine don’t despair, we’ll still end the occupation,” and “you can not destroy by force popular resistence.”
Last Friday protest was also to state that police repression will not stop activism against the occupation after police arrested 21 protestors a week earlier.
On Friday December 12, some 150 activists arrived at the neighborhood in the afternoon hours. Also then the activists refused to comply by the police order to leave the neighborhood and were forcibly dispersed with pepper gas.
On the demonstrations of Friday 12 and Friday 19 the detainees were arrested in the Russian Compound police station.
To view source and more photos, click HERE
Israeli police arrested twenty-seven Palestinians and Israeli activists in Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, 18 December afternoon for refusing to end a rally against the eviction of Palestinian residents in the East Jerusalem neighborhood.
Several hundred protestors arrived to the neighborhood, where a new settlement is displacing Palestinian families the area, marching in small groups from the center of West Jerusalem. Several marchers were arrested by the police before they arrived to Sheikh Jarrah.
In Sheikh Jarrah, the activists sat on the ground and began shouting towards: “Palestine don’t despair, we’ll still end the occupation,” and “you can not destroy by force popular resistence.”
Last Friday protest was also to state that police repression will not stop activism against the occupation after police arrested 21 protestors a week earlier.
On Friday December 12, some 150 activists arrived at the neighborhood in the afternoon hours. Also then the activists refused to comply by the police order to leave the neighborhood and were forcibly dispersed with pepper gas.
On the demonstrations of Friday 12 and Friday 19 the detainees were arrested in the Russian Compound police station.
To view source and more photos, click HERE
A Busy Weekend
A busy weekend in Israel for Ta’ayush and the Israeli direct action left. Above is clear video from last Friday’s Sheikh Jarrah protest. Quoted in the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, Meretz Chairman Chaim Oron said “It’s unthinkable that every week left-wing protestors are prevented from expressing legitimate protest, while right-wing protestors, who violently and blatantly violate the government’s decisions, are being treated forgivingly.”
While the police and border patrol were working out their feelings of masculine insecurity on the non violent leftists in Sheikh Jarrah, Ultra Orthodox residents of Jerusalem actually got violent in their protest of the Intel Corporation opening their Jerusalem branch on Shabbat. They threw stones at police and burned garbage throughout their neighborhoods. No one was arrested, confirming the double standards that exist as a fact of everyday life in Israel Full text on Yediot Ahronot’s website.
Finally, Ta’ayush activists and Palestinians encountered some good ole settler violence near the extremist illegal outpost of Ashel. Report here form Ynet and video of one of the fine citizens of Asahel below.
While the police and border patrol were working out their feelings of masculine insecurity on the non violent leftists in Sheikh Jarrah, Ultra Orthodox residents of Jerusalem actually got violent in their protest of the Intel Corporation opening their Jerusalem branch on Shabbat. They threw stones at police and burned garbage throughout their neighborhoods. No one was arrested, confirming the double standards that exist as a fact of everyday life in Israel Full text on Yediot Ahronot’s website.
Finally, Ta’ayush activists and Palestinians encountered some good ole settler violence near the extremist illegal outpost of Ashel. Report here form Ynet and video of one of the fine citizens of Asahel below.
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