(Left: Troops attacking Palm Sunday Protest - Photo by IMEMC's Ghassan Bannoura)
"Fifteen people among them two journalists were detained by Israeli troops and police officers when they attacked a Palm Sunday protest near Bethlehem.
Palestinians along with international and Israeli supporters gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem city, southern West Bank. The Palm leaves and flags carrying protesters headed towards the gate of the wall separating Bethlehem form Jerusalem city.
People demanded their right of worship. Israeli only allows a limited number of Christian Palestinians permission to reach Jerusalem for the Easter week starting this Sunday.
At the gate of the wall protesters marched forward and managed to pass the military checkpoint there and entered Jerusalem. At the street after the checkpoint troops and police officers attacked protesters and detained fifteen people among them a Palestinian and an Israeli journalists.
Also Abbas Zakki, a Fatah high official was among those detained. In total three Israeli activists and one American was among those detained by the Israeli military.
Later soldiers forced people back to the wall and detained all the protesters and journalists between the wall and the gate of the wall until officer opened the gate of the wall and allowed people back to Bethlehem city. Troops used batons and rifle butts to bush people through the gate."
Palestinians along with international and Israeli supporters gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem city, southern West Bank. The Palm leaves and flags carrying protesters headed towards the gate of the wall separating Bethlehem form Jerusalem city.
People demanded their right of worship. Israeli only allows a limited number of Christian Palestinians permission to reach Jerusalem for the Easter week starting this Sunday.
At the gate of the wall protesters marched forward and managed to pass the military checkpoint there and entered Jerusalem. At the street after the checkpoint troops and police officers attacked protesters and detained fifteen people among them a Palestinian and an Israeli journalists.
Also Abbas Zakki, a Fatah high official was among those detained. In total three Israeli activists and one American was among those detained by the Israeli military.
Later soldiers forced people back to the wall and detained all the protesters and journalists between the wall and the gate of the wall until officer opened the gate of the wall and allowed people back to Bethlehem city. Troops used batons and rifle butts to bush people through the gate."
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