Hamas police beat, arrest protesters at Gaza rally

[oberliner]

Police in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip beat and arrested protesters on Wednesday at a youth rally in the north of the besieged Palestinian territory, an AFP correspondent said.

More than 400 demonstrators gathered in Shejaiya, a neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City that was razed during a July-August war between Hamas and Israel, urging reconstruction and calling for an end to intra-Palestinian division.

Plainclothes police officers entered the crowd, beating a number of protesters without causing serious injury, the AFP correspondent said.

They then arrested at least seven people, according to witnesses.

http://www.france24.com/en/20150429-hamas-police-beat-arrest-protesters-gaza-rally

[bravenak]

1. I cannot stand cops.

[Scootaloo]

3. There doesn't seem to be much variety in the profession

I mean there's Scandinavia, but they use old reels of "The Andy Griffith Show" for training.

[azurnoir]

2. same article headline Ma'an front and center

http://www.maannews.com/

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=765152

[Jefferson23]

4. Thank you. n/t

[oberliner]

5. They should stick with reprinting AP and AFP wire stories

Much more reliable than their own sometimes dubious reporting.

[King_David]

6. Democratically elected government of Hamas

Elected many many years ago.

[oberliner]

7. Flashback to 2006: Hamas Election Victory: A Vote for Clarity (Ali Abuminah, Electronic Intifada)

This was his article after the election:

http://electronicintifada.net/content/hamas-election-victory-vote-clarity/5847

Here we are almost ten years later.

[shira]

8. These anti-zionists turn out be wrong on nearly everything. Notice that?

It would be hilarious to quote them for their most obnoxious predictions from the past 10-15 years.

Or to quote them for their idiotic op-eds & and reporting of "facts" that turn out to be anything but.