Meanwhile, in the West Bank, dozens of people were arrested when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s security forces raided a funeral in the city of Hebron. The victim was killed in protests to the Annapolis talks. Funeral-goers threw rocks at police, who in turn opened fire to disperse the crowd. In Ramallah, a group of Palestinian journalists rallied against a series of police raids. Al Arabiya correspondent Khaled Al-Qassem criticized Abbas’s forces.

Khaled Al-Qassem: “I do believe that all journalists agree with having law and order, but also all journalists support freedom of news coverage. What happened yesterday was crossing the red line by the security system, which dealt with protesters or journalists.”