Isawiya residents protest blocked-off entrances to neighborhood, call them ‘collective punishment’
“We’re not throwing rocks or participating in riots!” shouted an angered middle-aged Arab man from a megaphone.
RIOT POLICE stand guard in Isawiya yesterday as hundreds of residents demand the removal of concrete barricades at the entrances to the east Jerusalem neighborhood(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD