| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/08/04, 9:36 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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At least four protesters were arrested on Thurday near East Jerusalem's Old City at a demonstration against plans to displace tens of thousands of Bedouin from their ancestral lands in Israel's Negev
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Protesters hit the streets across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as 16 cities worldwide, to voice their rejection of "the Prawer Plan", which seeks to forcibly relocate about 40,000 Arab Bedouins, effectively ending their semi-nomadic existence in favour of being herded into townships with few municipal facilities.
In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli security forces shot stun grenades into groups of demonstrators, while mounted police charged into the crowd to arrest Palestinian youths. At Lehavim Junction, in the heart of the Bedouin area in the Negev, hundreds of Israeli, Palestinian and international activists gathered for a “day of rage”, in opposition to what has been dubbed "the Second Nakba". The protest remained peaceful, but tense, as demonstrators broke down barricades and confronted mounted police.
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