Hebron Palestinians clash with soldiers on mosque massacre date

Tel Aviv/Ramallah - Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron clashed with Israeli soldiers while marking the 16th anniversary Thursday of a rampage by a Jewish extremist at a local mosque. Dozens, many of them students and teenagers, marched through the Palestinian-controlled section of Hebron in marking the anniversary of the killing of at least 29 Muslim worshipers in the Ibrahimi Mosque by Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein.

Once they reached the Israeli-controlled part of the divided city, they clashed with Israeli soldiers guarding roadblocks, witnesses said.

The clashes took place at a number of locations throughout the city, with the protesters throwing rocks and firebombs and burning tires, an Israeli military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said.

She said the soldiers responded with riot dispersal means, mostly teargas.

No injuries or arrests were immediately reported.

Thursday was the fourth consecutive day of clashes in Hebron.

Angry residents have taken to the streets since Monday, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet on Sunday approved a list of "national heritage sites" which it wants to refurbish.

Hebron, under a 1997 Israeli-Palestinian agreement, has a different status than other Palestinian autonomous cities in the West Bank and was divided into a Palestinian- and an Israeli-controlled part (H1 and H2).

Source: Earth Times.
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