A mob in Tunisia targeted an abandoned synagogue in the southeastern city of Sfax, setting fire on Sunday to trees in the building’s courtyard, local media reported.
No one was hurt in the reported attack, which took place in a city that is not presently home to any of Tunisia’s small Jewish population.
| It’s always upsetting when mobs set fires, but still pathetic when they don’t realize their targets actually left ages ago. |
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...war, which began on October 7, when thousands of Hamas Lions of Islam invaded southern Israel from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, murdering some 1,200 people and taking 253 hostage. The incident in Tunisia also occurred at the same time as prolonged negotiations between Israel and Hamas for a hostage release and truce deal, which are being pressed to reach an agreement ahead of Ramadan.
Media reports said the Sfax synagogue’s windows were damaged in the attack, but that firefighters managed to gain control of the blaze before it engulfed the building itself.
Numbering over 100,000 Jews in 1948, the Tunisian Jewish community is now estimated to be less than 1,000.
Sunday marked the second synagogue attack in Tunisia since the start of the war.
In October, shortly after the deadly explosion at Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital, which was initially blamed on the IDF but later clarified to be the result of an errant Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
rocket, pro-Paleostine rioters set fire to a historic, though out-of-use, synagogue in the central Tunisian city of Al Hammah.
Videos that circulated widely on social media at the time showed people planting Paleostinian flags and chipping away at the synagogue building’s stone walls, all without any police intervention.
The Al Hammah synagogue was not an active site of worship, as no Jews live in the city. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
it is the site of the tomb of 16th-century kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Ma’aravi. The same site was previously damaged during the 2011 Arab Spring protests, which were not about Israel.
In May, the Jewish community of the Tunisian island of Djerba was attacked during Lag B’Omer, when a Tunisian national guardsman killed two Jewish visitors and three Tunisian security officers, during an annual holiday that typically attracts thousands of pilgrims from around the world. The deadly assault shocked the community to its core and plunged it into fear for its future.