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Mon, 2010-05-31 23:42
Police are responding by firing tear gas. Protesters, some covering their faces in black-and-white Palestinian scarves, are charging toward the Israeli Embassy near the Champs-Elysees.
The clashes were part of swelling demonstrations that began earlier when riot police forcibly drove back scores of protesters demonstrating outside the embassy.
Monday's protests came amid an international outcry over the raid by Israeli forces on ships taking humanitarian aid from Turkey to Gaza. At least nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed.
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