LNP · Lancaster, Pennsylvania · 2 March 2023
CP-2023-017
Protesters, police clash
Stun grenades, tear gas, water cannons greet ‘national disruption day’
Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Wednesday fired stun grenades and water cannons at demonstrators who blocked a Tel Aviv highway, while protesters scuffled with police near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Jerusalem as weeks of anti-government protests turned violent for the first time… Netanyahu made no mention of a call Wednesday by his Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a firebrand West Bank settler leader, for Hawara to be ‘erased’ by the Israeli state.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price called on Netanyahu to ‘publicly and clearly reject’ Smotrich’s comments, describing them as ‘repugnant,’ ‘disgusting’ and ‘irresponsible.’”
Context added by this archive
A minister of finance calls for a Palestinian town to be erased and the American State Department calls the remark repugnant, and both are paragraphs eleven and twelve of a story about Israeli traffic protests.
Cite this clipping
"Protesters, police clash," LNP, 2 March 2023, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-017. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-017
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