JERUSALEM (AFP) — Police on Sunday clashed with hundreds of ultra-nationalist Israelis planning to destroy the Jerusalem home of a Palestinian behind a deadly attack this month on a Jewish religious school.
The demonstrators marched through the streets of the Arab neighbourhood of Abu Tur chanting "Revenge" and "Death to the Arabs", before police moved in to disperse them, sparking clashes and rock-throwing, an AFP correspondent said.
The crowds had planned to destroy the family home of Alaa Hisham Abu Dheim, 25, who mowed down eight students at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva on March 6 in the deadliest attack in Jerusalem in four years.
Abu Dheim was gunned down by an army officer after the attack in west Jerusalem.
Nine demonstrators were arrested, according to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, who said about 100 policemen, including officers on horseback, had been deployed.
The attack on the yeshiva, closely allied to Israel's Jewish religious nationalist movement, brought calls for revenge from extremist rabbis and demands for punitive measures against Abu Dheim's family from several MPs.
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