Gazans stage mass protest against Israeli blockade.
Al-Mughrabi also calls it “peaceful,” which it was if you overlook the rockets fired into Israel and the arrests of 50 stone-throwing “youths.”
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians formed a human chain in the Gaza Strip on Monday in a protest against an Israeli blockade that has deepened hardship in the Hamas-controlled territory.
Israel had put troops on alert along the frontier and threatened to open fire if protesters tried to surge across the border. Organizers had forecast 40,000 to 50,000 participants but only about 4,500 people turned out in inclement weather.
Although the event, promoted by Hamas Islamists and allied activists, was peaceful, militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets at southern Israel while the protest was under way, wounding a child.
After the human chain broke up, Palestinian youngsters hurled rocks at Israeli soldiers at Gaza’s Erez border crossing. The Israeli army said it detained 50 stone-throwers.
The Associated Press, on the other hand, doesn’t even mention the rockets or the stone-throwers: Hamas Gaza protest passes peacefully.
Monday, February 25, 2008
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