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  BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Jerusalem 'tense' after clashes
Israeli police say 20 protesters and 15 police officers were injured in the clashes.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld denied police entered the mosque itself, where about 150 protesters sought refuge.
Israeli authorities say the work is needed after a centuries-old walkway partially collapsed in 2004.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/middle_east/6346093.stm   (543 words)

  
 Israeli police confront worshipers at Al-Aqsa - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Israeli police forces entered the area around Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and fired stun grenades at stone-throwing Palestinian worshippers in clashes at the end of Friday prayers.
Dozens were stuck inside the mosque as stone-throwers clashed with police outside on the compound known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif.
ZAKA added that police were being diverted to the north of the country to prepare for possible unrest at a major protest in expected later on Friday in the city of Nazareth.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/02/09/israeli_police_confront_worshipers_at_al_aqsa   (450 words)

  
 Israeli police take the stand as inquiry hears of deaths - 28 July 2001
It was also assumed it would vindicate the view of the Israeli media that the country's Arab citizens had finally been unmasked as a fifth column, violently supporting the uprising of their Palestinian cousins in the occupied territories.
The police have yet to explain why live rounds were fired on a civilian population which, unlike the Palestinians in the occupied territories, was unarmed.
That the police force dealt with the country's Arab population differently from the Jewish one is not in doubt.
www.jkcook.net /Articles1/0103.htm   (1836 words)

  
 CNN - Israeli police arrest U.S. cult members - January 3, 1999
The police statement said the cult members had not been working and were living on their life savings and on contributions received from abroad.
Police said they were arrested in their apartments in well-to-do western Jerusalem suburbs and taken into custody for questioning.
Israeli authorities said that police would not interfere with "freedom of religion and worship during the millennium observances," but stressed that they would stop any attempt by "extremist groups" to interfere.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/meast/9901/03/israel.cult.arrests/index.html   (310 words)

  
 israelinsider: security: Distraught Israeli couple who threw firecrackers in Nazareth church rescued
Police said the couple, Haim Habibi and his wife Violet, and their 20-year-old daughter, were dressed as pilgrims when they entered the Basilica of the Annunciation on the first day of Lent.
Police officials said the Jerusalem couple were known to authorities and had been treated for psychiatric problems in the past.
While they are entitled to Israeli citizenship, in contrast to Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel's Arab minority complains of systematic discrimination at the hands of the Jewish majority.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Security/7940.htm   (714 words)

  
 Israeli Security Forces - Israeli Police - Jewish Reference: People, Places, and All Things Jewish
The Border Police is the combat arm of the police and its mainly serves in unquiet areas - the borders, the West Bank, and the rural countryside.
Israeli police officers are obliged to carry personal firearms while on duty.
Police volunteers are usually armed with an M1 Carbine, which they return to the police's armory after they finish their duty (they do not take the rifle home, but may sign one out for escorting field trips, etc.).
www.jewishreference.com /israelisecurity-israelipolice.html   (489 words)

  
 Excavations incite clash between Israeli police, Palestinians - World
The Israeli excavation, in preparation for construction of a new approach ramp for visitors to the hilltop compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, has become the latest flashpoint of the struggle for the contested area - ground zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said the officers went in after they saw protesters preparing to throw stones onto the Western Wall plaza at the foot of the compound.
Police said 19 officers and 17 protesters were lightly hurt in the clashes and 17 other protesters were arrested.
www.smh.com.au /news/world/excavations-incite-clash-between-israeli-police-palestinians/2007/02/10/1170524345139.html?s_cid=rss_smh   (856 words)

  
 israelinsider: security: Police inform Israeli public "how to spot a suicide bomber"
The Israeli Police is due to begin distribution of an informative pamphlet helping the public identify potential suicide bombers and car bombs.
Esther Dominisini, head of the Israeli Police Communal division, explained the decision to distribute the pamphlet: "We identified a sense of panic among the public, which stems from a lack of direction.
Israeli Police Commissioner Shlomo Aharonishky approved the pamphlet's distribution and teachers will be asked to convey the included information to students during the coming school year.
web.israelinsider.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l1380&enZone=Security&enVersion=0&   (641 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - Israeli troops beat Palestinian police   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The unarmed uniformed police were directing traffic in the town's Bab al-Zawiya district on Tuesday when the soldiers arrived, beat them and took them away in military vehicles, the AFP news agency reported.
An Israeli military source said the men were detained for questioning after refusing to leave an area where they were not allowed and would shortly be released.
Separately, Israeli police said on Tuesday they were investigating accusations that Jewish settlers killed sheep belonging to Palestinians with poison in a bid to drive Palestinians off their land in the West Bank.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/20598563-5012-4A7F-9FAA-1EA794BF3CE6.htm   (614 words)

  
 Israeli police clash with Palestinians at Al-Aqsa
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police used stun grenades to gain control over the site and disperse between 100 and 150 youths.
ZAKA said police were being diverted to northern Israel to prepare for possible unrest at a major protest expected later on Friday in the city of Nazareth.
Israeli officials say the project is essential as an existing ramp leading up to the complex was considered unsafe after it was damaged by a snowstorm and an earthquake in 2004.
thestar.com.my /news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/10/worldupdates/2007-02-09T201717Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-287024-5&sec=Worldupdates   (664 words)

  
 NPR : Israeli Police Forcibly Remove Jewish Squatters
Israeli police officers carry a Jewish settler as she is evacuated from a house in the West Bank town of Hebron, on Tuesday.
A young Jewish settler cries as he is carried by an Israeli police officer during the eviction of settlers from a house in the West Bank.
Olmert was the first Israeli leader to visit a Palestinian town after seven years of bloody fighting, and Israeli and Palestinian security forces worked together to protect him, blocking all access to the five-star hotel in the biblical oasis of Jericho where the meeting took place.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=12557145&ft=1&f=1001   (778 words)

  
 Middle East Online
JERUSALEM - Israeli police are to beef up their intelligence in a bid to counter the increasingly virulent tactics by extremists opposed to the pullout of settlers from the Gaza Strip, police said Thursday.
Police will also mobilise hundreds of reservist border guardsmen to fill in for the thousands of police who will take part in the evacuation of the 21 Gaza settlements which is due to start in late July.
The Israeli police have announced that they will close access to the compound to all non-Muslims on Sunday to block an attempted demonstration by extreme rightists, a spokesman said.
www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=13160   (435 words)

  
 Israeli police target settlers in Hebron riots - Independent Online Edition > Middle East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Israeli riot police yesterday moved in force into the heart of the West Bank city of Hebron in an effort to curb rioting by Jewish settlers and prevent them attacking Palestinian properties.
Police have arrested 13 mainly young settlers in the past four days in clashes which followed the issue of eviction notices saying the settlers would be evicted from the vegetable market by Febuary 15.
Police said yesterday that the reinforcements would remain "as long as necessary." But assuming that the squatter families are evicted, the premises appear highly unlikely to revert to their Palestinian tenants.
news.independent.co.uk /world/middle_east/article339065.ece   (660 words)

  
 FT.com / World - Israeli police break up al-Aqsa protest
Israeli riot police stormed Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque complex at the end of Friday prayers to break up a demonstration by worshippers protesting against reconstruction work they claim is cover for a takeover of Islam’s third holiest site.
Fifteen police and 17 Palestinians were wounded as security forces fired stun grenades and teargas rounds at protesters throwing stones, bottles and even the shoes they had removed before entering the mosque for the weekly prayers.
Israeli officials said the work was being carried out beyond the walls of the complex, which falls under the authority of the Muslim Waqf.
www.ft.com /cms/s/5a00409a-b82b-11db-ae51-0000779e2340.html   (962 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Israeli police move to counter hardline Gaza pullout opponents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Police meanwhile said they had arrested two right-wing extremists on suspicion of planting fake explosives near a market in Jerusalem's city centre, alleging that the suspects were trying to heighten tension in the run-up to the evacuation process which should start in late July.
Sensitive to accusations that they have been left flat-footed by the militants of late, police said around 50 intelligence officers are to be posted to police stations across the country with orders to gather information on "illegal preparations" by protestors such as blocking roads.
Police will also mobilise hundreds of reservist border guardsmen to fill in for the thousands of police who will take part in the evacuation of the 21 Gaza settlements.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVIU-6B8DY7?OpenDocument   (756 words)

  
 Inquiry After Israeli Forces Caught Using Boy as Shield
Police said last night that the Justice Ministry's police complaints unit was investigating the case.
Rabbi Ascherman said the group's subsequent complaints to police had been treated "politely and efficiently", but the Justice Ministry's investigation would be a test of whether police were prepared to conduct a fundamental rethink of "violation of police rules" in the handling of demonstrations.
The Israeli High Court is due to pass judgment on 2 May on a series of petitions from both Palestinians and some of their Israeli neighbors about the planned route of the fence which would cut off Biddo, Beit Surik, and other Palestinian villagers from their olive groves and fruit orchards.
www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0424-03.htm   (659 words)

  
 The Insider - Israeli police arrest Jews for bomb scare
Israeli police have arrested two Jews suspected of planting fake bombs in Jerusalem to try to disrupt plans to pull settlers out of the Gaza Strip.
Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said the men who were arrested belonged to an outlawed ultra-nationalist group, Kahane Chai.
An Israeli police spokeswoman said some of those opposed to the Gaza withdrawal planned to distract the security services "so that they will not be able to carry out evacuations".
www.theinsider.org /news/article.asp?id=1098   (479 words)

  
 Israeli police use force to remove Hebron settlers - Worldnews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Israeli police officers try to evacuate a Jewish settler woman holding her baby from a house in the West Bank town of Hebron, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007.
Hundreds of Israeli police officers were pelted with rocks by a band of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers today, as officials moved in to forcibly dismantle an illegal encampment in the heart of a Palestinian...
Israeli police and army units removed two Jewish settler families from a house in the West Bank city of Hebron early Tuesday.
article.wn.com /view/2007/08/08/Israeli_police_use_force_to_remove_Hebron_settlers   (1459 words)

  
 Israeli war crimes
It would seem that the use of intimidation and violence by the Israeli army was meant to disrupt the work of Palestinian and international media; cut electronic communications with the rest of the world; tightly shut the occupied territories to all media groups; and create a news flout on Israeli military activities.
In addition, an Israeli army bulldozer ploughed the street that leads to the hospital, making it inaccessible.(7) Other hospitals in Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, Bayt Jala and Hebron were encircled with tanks and frequently had their water, electricity and telephone networks cut by the Israeli army.
Exploiting the impact of the suicide bombings, the Israeli army began a slow ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip that was implemented through the eviction of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, the levelling of their agricultural land and the demolishing of their houses.
www.redress.btinternet.co.uk /zsabbagh2.htm   (5119 words)

  
 Israeli police 'tied Palestinian to galloping mule' - Independent Online Edition > Middle East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Police denied the family's version of events and said an investigation had been completed on 11 December and all border police in the area at the time had been "completely cleared" of acting in any way improperly.
He said that after being stopped by police and told to wait at the football field while they completed their tour of the village, he met his brother Mahmoud who had arrived with another man from his home in Um al Neu'uman.
Police said the first time border force was involved was after the man had been found and an ambulance called.
news.independent.co.uk /world/middle_east/article334816.ece   (991 words)

  
 ei: Journalists hit by Israeli stun grenades, tear-gassed
Israeli soldiers scuffle with Palestinians during a demonstration at Huwarra checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, 7 March 2007.
The journalists alleged that Israeli border police fired deliberately at them, and noted that none of the protestors were hit by the grenades, which they said emits plastic shrapnel.
On February 16, Israeli soldiers fired teargas at several cameramen and photojournalists covering clashes between the soldiers and Palestinian stone-throwers near the West Bank city of Hebron, according to AP's Shiyoukhi and journalists at the scene.
electronicintifada.net /v2/article6650.shtml   (561 words)

  
 Muslim American Society
Israeli forces stormed the al-Aqsa compound during Friday prayers, injuring over a dozen worshippers.
Additional forces were sent in as police closed all access to the area, an AFP correspondent outside the compound witnessed, adding that he saw four people being ferried away by ambulance.
The Palestinian Authority condemned the police intervention as a "provocation" by the Israeli authorities.
www.masnet.org /news.asp?id=1103   (510 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Thousands of Israeli police confront Jewish extremists at Jerusalem holy site
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, speaking on a plane taking him to Monday's meeting with President Bush, said the mortar fire "is a flagrant violation of the understandings" reached at the February truce summit with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Despite the low turnout, Israeli officials acknowledged the protesters appeared to have accomplished their goal of showing how easy it will be to divert large numbers of troops from their main mission this summer – the planned Gaza pullout.
Israelis and Palestinians offered widely varying accounts of the incident, the bloodiest there since the truce was declared.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050410-1137-israel-palestinians.html   (809 words)

  
 ireland.com - Breaking News - Israeli president faces rape and fraud charges
Israeli police made their recommendation yesterday in a meeting with Attorney General Meni Mazuz, who will decide on whether Mr Katsav will be put on trial.
The first test of his standing after the police report was to come today, when he was to attend the opening of the winter session of Israel's parliament.
His lawyer said the police were not authorised to bring charges, noting that in the past when police have recommended putting senior officials on trial, the attorney general has dismissed most of the cases.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/breaking/2006/1016/breaking11.htm   (427 words)

  
 IOL | Israeli police pledge to stop marchers
Israeli police today pledged to stop more than 20,000 marchers, including teenagers with backpacks and parents with pushchairs, who were en route to the Gaza Strip to protest the summer's planned withdrawal – in the tensest showdown yet between protesters and the security forces.
Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi said he would not permit marchers to move any closer to Gaza, setting the stage for possible confrontations later in the day.
Police have declared the march illegal, and yesterday tried to stop buses with protesters at their departure points to thin the crowd.
breakingnews.iol.ie /news/story.asp?j=149913452&p=y499y4y58   (725 words)

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