Hundreds protest house demolition near Tel Aviv

Fri, 29 Jan 2010

Hundreds of people held a demonstration against Israel's plans to demolish an entire Palestinian neighborhood in the city of Lod near Tel Aviv.

The protesters, among them members of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, Arab public leaders and members of Knesset (Israeli parliament), held up Palestinian flags and banners on Friday, Ynet reported.

Some of the banners read "Demolishing houses, Demolishing lives," and "Yes to Development, No to Ethnic Cleansing."

"The threat to demolish the houses is part of the policy aimed at ethnically cleansing the mixed cities," said Member of Knesset (MK) Talab El-Sana.

"Another Goldstone report should be written against the crimes...Israel commits against the Arabs living in it," he added.

A report released by a UN fact-finding team headed by South African Judge Richard Goldstone in September accused the Israeli military of war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.

Based on the report, Israel used disproportionate force and failed to protect civilians during its December 2008-January 2009 offensive on the territory.

According to MK Jamal Zahalka, who was among the protesters, a total of 40,000 Arab homes were threatened with demolition.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117378§ionid=351020202.