Israeli Soldiers Throw Gas Canisters at Wedding, Arrest Groom

CROSSFIREARABIA – The Israeli occupation forces arrested a groom and his brothers after they raided the marriage celebrations of their family in the Anata village, east Jerusalem, Thursday. Soldiers raided the Al Rifai family party and arrested the groom Naser Al Rafai and his brothers Saeed and Jamal. They also cordoned off the guests and refused to let them leave while attacking several youths there. The Israeli soldiers also threw gas canisters at the party leading to the suffocation of some of the elderly and women and children there.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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