RISHON LEZION Israel (Reuters) - Israeli police on Sunday blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters from rushing guests at a wedding of a Jewish woman and Muslim man as they shouted death to the Arabs in a sign of tensions stoked by the Gaza war. Several dozen police, including members of the forces most elite units, formed human chains to keep the protesters from the wedding halls gates and chased after many who defied them. Four protesters were arrested, and there were no injuries. A lawyer for the couple, Maral Malka, 23, and Mahmoud Mansour, 26, both from the Jaffa section of Tel Aviv, had unsuccessfully sought a court order to bar the protest. He obtained backing for police to keep protesters 200 metres (yards) from the wedding hall in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Lezion. A group called Lehava, which organized the wedding demonstration, has harassed Jewish-Arab couples in the past, often citing religious grounds for their objections to intermarriage. But they have rarely protested at the site of a wedding. https://youtube/watch?v=ZLtin1lGOdk&feature=youtu.be Read more: businessinsider/muslim-jewish-wedding-israel-protests-2014-8#ixzz3AoSr0O1d
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:41:45 +0000
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