Dozens of police and protestors were injured on Tuesday in clashes in a Druze village of northern Israel where demonstrators charge a mobile phone mast has caused an outbreak of cancer.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said 30 people were hurt in the unrest when police went to Pekiin to make arrests over the uprooting two days ago of a mobile phone transmission antenna outside the village.

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Yes, this became national headlines, one woman from the Village said on the radio that there are now 92 cancer cases in the village when 10 years ago there were zero, this is the reason they blame the antenna. She said the cellular companies say that there is no proof of link between antennas and cancer, but she knows it is not true. But the violence became the main headlines and the reason was put aside (spin?). The news dealt with whether the police handled this case well or did it not learn from past events, and there were discussions (TV) on the relations between the Druz and jews in Israel and whether this case puts the relations at risk. The people of the village received an early notice about the police arrival, they hid and waited for the police with stones in hands, 200 policemen arrived at the place and it turned into this total mess.

Iris.

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Dozens hurt in Israel Druze village clashes
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