From Le Figaro with AFP
Published 47 minutes ago, updated 5 minutes ago
Protesters in the West Bank, this Tuesday, October 17th. ZAIN JAAFAR / AFP
At the same time, protesters attempted to break into the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan. Angry demonstrators also gathered in front of the French embassy in Tunis.
Clashes erupted in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening between protesters demanding the departure of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his security forces, while a war between Israel and Hamas raged in the Gaza Strip, AFP journalists noted.
According to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority security forces fired tear gas canisters during the protest, which began shortly after an Israeli attack that killed at least 200 people at a hospital compound in Gaza. “Get out,” “The people want the president to fall,” the demonstrators shouted. In Nablus, further north, Palestinians demonstrated and waved Hamas flags, an AFP journalist noted.
Hamas “does not represent the Palestinian people”
President Abbas said on Sunday that “Hamas’ policies and actions do not represent the Palestinian people” in reference to the bloody attack carried out by commandos of the Islamist movement on Israeli soil in October, according to a report by the official Wafa news agency became 7. This sentence was then deleted in a new version published by the agency. On Tuesday evening, President Abbas condemned a “massacre” and declared three days of mourning in the Palestinian territories following the attack that killed at least 200 people in a Gaza hospital.
At the same time, protesters attempted to break into the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan. Dozens of them tried to enter the Israeli embassy in Amman on Tuesday evening to express their anger after the attack. The demonstrators bypassed the security forces’ barrier and advanced towards the embassy grounds. Security forces used tear gas to disperse them.
Angry demonstrators also gathered in front of the French embassy in Tunis.
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