23/5/09; (2 Items)
An Israeli tourism poster is being pulled from the London subway after the Syrian Embassy complained that the map on it appeared to show the Golan Heights and Palestinian territories within Israel’s boundaries, officials said Friday. Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority received more than 300 complaints about the ad, a promotion for the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat, according to the agency’s spokesman Matt Wilson. The Syrian Embassy and pro-Palestinian groups complained about it because the featured map appeared to show the territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war – the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights – within the borders of Israel, according to the Israeli Tourism Ministry and the British standards authority.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087487.html
2 Palestinians, 1 IDF soldier hurt in anti-separation fence protest
23/5/09
wo Palestinians and one Israel Defense Forces soldier were wounded on Friday in the weekly protests in the villages of Na’alin and Bil’in, where Palestinian and international activists regularly protest against the construction of Israel’s separation barrier. Some 400 protesters hurled firebombs and rocks and rolled burning tires at Israeli troops who responded with riot dispersal means. Palestinians said two people were hurt, one of them seriously after he was hit in the head by a tear gas canister. Associated Press Television News footage showed one of the protesters being struck in the head by what looked like a gas canister. bout 80 demonstrators participated in the Bilin protest, where an IDF soldier was lightly wounded after stones were pelted at him.