Israel forces Palestinians from 'tent city'

Israeli police backed by bulldozers evicted Palestinian protesters from a hilltop camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for Jewish settlement, witnesses said.

About 200 Palestinian activists set up the camp, named Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun in Arabic), on Friday in the controversial E1 area between Israeli annexed east Jerusalem and the illegal settlement of Maaleh Adumim.

The protesters had defied Israeli orders to leave until police moved in at around 2.30 am (00:30 GMT) Sunday.

"Hundreds of Israeli police came from all directions, surrounding all those who were in the tents and arresting them one by one," Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti said.

Al Jazeera's Jane Ferguson reports from Jerusalem.

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[Dm Gray]

Indeed.

Antisemitism, or fear of the arab world shouldn't give Israel carte blanche to do wtf they like.

I feel sorry for Palestinians and for people of Jewish descent that aren't right wing nut jobs.

Sickening that wanting peace, and for Israel to abide by international law, is often dismissed as antisemitism, as if you have to agree with a right wing government, or are a bigot.

Shameful :<

[J Trem]

until zionism ends there can never be peace

[J Trem]

ahaha ur mom was born braindead ? ahaha sucks to be u !

[HomeGrowen420]

420blazeitfgt

[ToonFightFan]

You mean just like in the Bible? Where they believe all Jews must die for salvation to reach us? All except 100,000 who will convert to Christianity?

Or just like the torah teaches Jews they are the chosen people and that everyone else is goyum?

Why is there a population of Jews in every Muslim country?

You are in denial if you dont think Jews are raised to hate Muslims.

Thats one of the worst part about isreals war crimes and genocide, it leads to justified anger which leads to hate.

[Atheist Ghostbuster]

The key word here is PRIVATE, meaning the land was paid for by a PRIVATE individual...not a state!!!!!

[Atheist Ghostbuster]

Haaretz has determined that the tents were put up on private Palestinian land. In preparing the plans for area E-1 in the West Bank, the state in 2005 examined the records for the lands on which the settlement is to be built. The plan shows an area of 1,500 dunams (375 acres) out of the total 12,000 dunams (3,000 acres‏) allocated for construction that Civil Administration figures indicate is privately owned by Palestinians, although the land was not registered officially. Read parrot!

[NOTANISMIDIOT]

J Trem: Did your mama have any children who lived or were they all born braindead?

[NOTANISMIDIOT]

The world know the Palestinians are full of shit. They just fear them and hate the Jews.

[NOTANISMIDIOT]

Ethnic cleansing was propaganda term started by the Saudis in Kosovo. 110,000 Arab stayed in Israel in 1948 and now number 1.2 million. There are 1 million more Arabs in the territories today since Oslo. Where's the Ethnic cleansing. Arabs say no Jews in Palestine. THAT is ethnic cleansing...

[NOTANISMIDIOT]

wildetruce--a Palestinian scratched his ass or an ISM activist kissed it and that made all the land Palestinian land....