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| Israeli seriously hurt by Arab mob in Lod dies of wounds; police said to file 116 indictments of suspects in Arab-Jewish riots, zero against Jews |
| 2021-05-18 |
Another project for Arab Israeli Ra’am Party’s Mansour Abbas to make promises about, or not, as the case may be. [IsraelTimes] Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua, 56, was struck in the head with a brick while driving home last week; rioting in Jewish-Arab cities mostly dies down. Intense Arab rioting broke out in the city on Tuesday following the death of an Arab man a night earlier. Mousa Hassouna had been shot by Jewish residents in what Jewish witnesses asserted was self-defense during rioting. An initial investigation had indicated Hassouna was standing dozens of meters away from the Jewish suspects when he was shot. Nevertheless, on Thursday the four Jewish suspects in the fatal shooting were ordered released under relatively lenient restrictive conditions. A police representative told the court that the suspects’ version of events had received a boost over the last few days of investigation. Tensions between Israel’s Jewish and Arab communities spiraled into mob violence in multiple ethnically mixed communities over the past week, turning cities into veritable war zones, with police failing to contain the most serious internal unrest to grip the country in years. Several other people, Jewish and Arab, have been assaulted and seriously maimed in shooting incidents and beatings during the unrest. In Jaffa on Thursday, a 19-year-old soldier was seriously maimed after being beaten, Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv said. The soldier, Leon Shranin, later told Channel 12 news he had been heading to his grandfather’s home in Bat Yam, a nearby city. "There shouldn’t be festivities, it’s unnecessary, it’s nonsense," Shranin told the network. In a nearby hospital, Saeed Mousa, an Arab man who on Wednesday was attacked and savagely beaten by a Jewish mob in Bat Yam, was hospitalized at death's door. "He’s a human, just like me. No one deserves to suffer like this," Shranin said when he heard about Mousa. Tensions have significantly calmed since Saturday after police began mass arrests of those involved in the rioting, and Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced it would be assisting in efforts to prevent violence between Jews and Arabs in mixed cities. Over the course of the festivities, some 112 Jewish homes have been torched and another 386 looted amid the rioting, according to the Walla news site. It said there has been one case of an Arab home being torched, which resulted in the injury of two children — a 12-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl in Jaffa. The Molotov cocktailing in Jaffa was allegedly committed by Arab Israelis, in an apparent case of "mistaken identity," an unnamed police official told Walla. On Monday, the police announced it had arrested a 20-year-old Arab resident of the city on suspicion of being involved in the attack. According to the Haaretz daily, 116 suspects have been indicted so far for incidents related to the unrest — all of them are Arab. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 He’s a human, just like me. Sigh... the guilelessness of youth. [shakes head, trying a fatherly smile] |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-05-18 02:41 |