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| Hundreds Riot Throughout West Bank After Friday Prayers |
| 2014-11-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] Several riots were reported throughout the West Bank Friday afternoon following weekly sermons. Around 350 Paleostinians demonstrated in Hebron, Israel Radio reported. Rioters were hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, who were responding with non-lethal means to disperse the protesters. Another hundred people were demonstrating and assaulting security forces near Nablus, where soldiers were using rubber bullets and other means to quell the mob. Three Paleostinians were lightly injured there and evacuated to hospital in Nablus. In Kalandiya, north of Jerusalem, several dozen Paleostinians were rioting. One man was said lightly injured by a rubber bullet fired by security forces. Small riots of several dozen protesters were also reported in two locations near Ramallah and another near Qalqilya. Prayers in the Temple Mount ended peacefully, with around 40,000 Moslem worshipers attending the weekly sermon, Israel Radio reported. Israeli police had said earlier that they would not bar young Moslem worshipers from Friday prayers at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, despite a week of spiraling violence in the city including a Paleostinian terror attack on a synagogue. It was the second week running that the restrictions were lifted at the flashpoint Temple Mount compound after months of limited entry. "So far, restrictions on entry of worshippers will not be imposed," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement late Thursday. Israel eased restrictions at Temple Mount last week after US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... announced agreement on steps to reduce tensions in talks in neighboring Jordan, which has custodial rights at the compound. The site, which is holy to Jews as well as Moslems, has been the focus of months of unrest in East Jerusalem, that has spread to the West Bank and Arab communities across Israel, and raised fears of a new Paleostinian uprising. Clashes at the compound are usually led by younger Paleostinian men, some of whom earlier this month hurled rocks and firecrackers at police who entered the compound and chased them to the entrance of the mosque. In recent weeks, police have tried to preempt unrest by limiting male entry to those over 35 and in the past have barred those under 50. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Whenever the Hundreds run riot, One Jew finds it hard to keep quiet: "Those EUniks won't bother Our new little father -- I pity the tranzis that try it!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-11-22 03:04 |