Dozens protest outside controversial pro-settlement event

27 September 2017, 8:13 pm

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Dozens of left-wing activists are protesting outside the controversial state ceremony celebrating 50 years of settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights in Kfar Etzion.

At a traffic circle just outside where the event is being held, protesters hold signs and chant slogans against the government’s West Bank policy in a demonstration organized by the Peace Now settlement watchdog.

“We are here because there is no reason for celebration,” Peace Now CEO Avi Buskila tells the protesters.

“We are all witnesses to a political event under the fake cover of ‘statesmanship.’ We are here to raise a voice in the name of the vast majority of the citizens of Israel who desire life and strongly oppose the settlement enterprise,” he says.