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NEWS
Destruction of Ancient Graves Continues
By Betzalel Kahn
This week Trans-Israel Highway workers continued to damage
the ancient graves along the planned route near Binyamina,
and burial caves were also discovered along another section
near Yokneam. Company security guards beat dozens of
protesters at the site and wounded one with a knife.
During a demonstration on Sunday the avreichim at the
site learned that workers from the Antiquities Authority and
the construction company commissioned to lay the Trans-Israel
Highway had destroyed burial caves further along the route
near Yokneam. Dozens of the demonstrators went straight to
the second site and attempted to stop the unearthing of the
graves. During the course of the protests, company guards,
backed by police, attacked the demonstrators. One of the
guards even stabbed a demonstrator with a knife. At the
hospital he was treated for minor wounds.
The chareidi sector is currently preparing for the
possibility of a mass protest rally to decry the destruction
of the burial caves being carried out with government
sanction.
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