Independent Media Center, Israel http://indymedia.org.il Ta'ayush demonstration forcibly turned away at Bethlehem roadblockSaturday 10 Aug 2002 author: Ha'aretz summary Israeli protestors from the Ta'ayush movement, which promotes relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, were forcibly turned away by police from a roadblock into Bethlehem on Saturday while attempting to enter the West Bank city to join a Palestinan demonstration for peace.

Leftist protestors forcibly turned away at Bethlehem roadblock Israeli protestors from the Ta'ayush movement, which promotes relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, were forcibly turned away by police from a roadblock into Bethlehem on Saturday while attempting to enter the West Bank city to join a Palestinan demonstration for peace. One of the Israeli demonstrators reported that the police turned water cannons on the crowd, before mounted officers rode their horses into the demonstrators and began beating them. She said that the demonstrators tried to enter Bethlehem through another roadblock but were also turned away from there, although without the use of violent means. One of the demonstrators wounded in the incident was taken to hospital for treatment.

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