A senior Israeli police officer came under fire for cursing those protesting against the upcoming Gaza Strip withdrawal. Nisso Shaham, the chief of police in the Negev region, was caught on camera last week giving a deputy instructions on how to handle protesters who had been penned in by security forces during a march on the main Gaza settlement bloc, Gush Katif.
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