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IDF breaks up Palestinian march toward West Bank settlement
The procession by Palestinians from Deir Jareer followed charges that Israeli settlers had attacked them twice this past week; IDF Spokesman says army is investigating the events leading up to the march.By Reuters | Apr.26, 2013 | 6:22 PM
Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse about 500 Palestinian villagers marching toward an Israeli settlement outpost in the West Bank on Friday.
The procession, the largest of its kind for years, followed charges by Palestinians that the Israeli settlers, whose caravans abut village land, had attacked them twice this week.
Men from Deir Jareer, including Christian and Muslim clerics, gathered for Friday prayers on a craggy outcrop between their village and a cluster of half a dozen makeshift settler homes surrounded by Israeli army jeeps and soldiers.
Their march, preceded by a group of stone-throwing youths, was repeatedly pushed back by salvoes of Israeli tear gas. Young boys howled from the effects of the tear gas and old men hitched up their robes to flee, holding onion slices to their noses.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-breaks-up-palestinian-march-toward-west-bank-settlement-1.517808
