Israeli police detained six foreign human rights activists during a demonstration against the expansion of Jewish settlement in eastern Jerusalem. The police forcibly dispersed the gathering after the demonstrators staged a sit-in near four homes that were occupied earlier this week in the predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan by members of the Elad group. The demonstrators, who were members of a group called the International Committee on the Middle East, were in Jerusalem to attend a forum organized with a Palestinian human rights group to mark what they termed “50 years of human rights violations” by Israel.
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