Gaza: 5 hurt as officers remove illegal structures

Ma'an News Agency
October 3, 2012

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3450/gaza-5-hurt-as-officers-remove-illegal-structures

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) – Five people including two police officers and a land authority officer were injured Tuesday in the northern Gaza Strip during clashes between police and locals.

Security sources in the Hamas-run government in Gaza told Ma'an that police officers escorted a land authority officer to remove illegal structures erected on public lands. Suddenly, added the sources, locals started to pelt stones at the officers injuring two and a land authority officer moderately.

Spokesman of the Hamas-run ministry of interior Islam Shahwan said police officers were taken by surprise, and they tried their best to convince the stone-throwers to stop. As stones continued, he added, officers fired warning shots into the air and as a result two people were moderately injured.

Shahwan said in a statement that police were carrying out its normal duties helping the land authority officers.

He expressed his sorrow for the drastic results asserting that police officers were obliged to do what they did because the citizens insisted to continue to throw stones at them.

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