2 Foreigners Hurt in Jerusalem Protest
Israeli police said they injured two foreigners and arrested six others Thursday when they dispersed a protest outside the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses said police fired tear gas at an estimated 50 foreign sympathizers with the Palestinian cause, mostly Americans and West Europeans, and clubbed several of them when they refused to clear the street in front of the consulate.
An official at Birzeit University in the West Bank said the demonstrators had been protesting the arrest of a Palestinian in a night raid on a university-sponsored summer work camp they were attending.
He said that two Belgians, Willem Defieu and Dietmer Truyel, suffered injuries in the clash with police and that those arrested included two American Palestinians, Karima Bannoune and Samir Fayid.
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