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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel-Palestine: Lynching, crackdowns and deaths - here's what happened last night</h1>May 13, 2021</div>
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<div><p>Wednesday night saw even more violence across
Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, with harrowing footage
of lynchings and police brutality emerging while Hamas and Israel
exchanged rocket fire.</p>
<p>Here’s what happened in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.</p>
<h3>Israel</h3>
<p>The worse violence was in Arab-minority towns in Israel, with scores
of videos making the rounds online showing attacks described as
"lynchings", and police brutality amid Palestinian protests.</p>
<p>In scenes repeated across several cities, gangs of youths threw stones and stormed shops belonging to Palestinians.</p>
<div><p>Israeli police have arrested 374 people so far.</p><p>
Video footage shared widely on social media appeared to show a group of
Israelis attempting to break into a Palestinian home in Haifa.</p></div>
<p>While the family manages to repel the initial attack, police then
burst into the home and arrest and beat a number of the residents.</p>
<p>While MEE cannot independently verify the footage, there have been
numerous reports of violence between Palestinians and Israeli Jews in
Haifa over the past few days</p>
<p>Elsewhere, a video seen by Middle East Eye showed a large group of
Israelis, some carrying national flags, pelting rocks at a Palestinian
car. Another shows a group of Israelis attacking an Israeli ambulance,
reportedly carrying a Palestinian.</p>
<p>Footage from Akka showed a group of Israelis chanting "death to Arabs" in Hebrew.</p>
<p>Another video, on Instagram, reportedly also from Akka - and too
explicit to publish - shows Israeli security forces walking away from a
Palestinian man lying motionless, eyes staring at the ceiling, on the
floor of an apartment building.</p>
<p>Israeli paper <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-clashes-resume-in-central-israeli-city-of-lod-ahead-of-police-imposed-curfew-1.9800313" target="_blank">Haaretz</a>
reported that five Palestinians in the city seriously wounded a
30-year-old Jewish man, after police told Palestinian shop owners to
shutter stores because of expected attacks by far-right Israelis.</p>
<p>In Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv, a Palestinian was pulled from his car and lynched <a href="https://twitter.com/kann_news/status/1392551091968040964" target="_blank">during a live broadcast </a>on an Israeli television channel. The 33-year-old man was treated overnight and his condition has improved, according to <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-gantz-orders-massive-police-reinforcement-to-quell-unrest-amid-jewish-arab-clashes-1.9804113" target="_blank">Haaretz</a>.</p>
<p>Photos of him, which are too explicit to publish, show a deep puncture wound and major swelling on one side of his face.</p>
<p>Far-right Israelis had previously roamed the city attacking Arab-owned businesses and chanting racist slogans, according to <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-gantz-orders-massive-police-reinforcement-to-quell-unrest-amid-jewish-arab-clashes-1.9804113" target="_blank">Haaretz</a>.</p>
<p>In Lod, called Lydd by Palestinians, where yesterday a night curfew
was announced, a video showed a group of Israelis waving flags walking
towards the town centre - accompanied by security forces.</p>
<p>Jewish-Israelis <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-clashes-resume-in-central-israeli-city-of-lod-ahead-of-police-imposed-curfew-1.9800313" target="_blank">provoked Palestinians</a>
by approaching the mourning tent for Moussa Hassuna, a Palestinian
protester who was shot dead on Monday evening. The three Israeli
suspects arrested after his murder were released on Thursday after
prominent Israeli politicians decried their arrests.</p>
<p>Also in Lod, a Jewish man was shot and two others suffered stab wounds, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-gantz-orders-massive-police-reinforcement-to-quell-unrest-amid-jewish-arab-clashes-1.9804113" target="_blank">Haaretz</a> reported, while 20 people were taken to the Shamir Medical Centre. More than 20 people were reportedly arrested.</p>
<p>Police said they had responded to violent incidents in multiple towns, including Lod, Acre and Haifa, according to AFP.</p>
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<p>MEE correspondent Lubna Masarwa reported that groups of Israelis
tried to attack Palestinians in villages in the "northern triangle"
area, where around a third of Israel's population of Palestinian
citizens live.</p>
<p>Unrest was also reported in southern Israel. Nineteen Jews were
detained for disorderly conduct, according to Haaretz, along with three
Arabs, after hundreds of Israeli Jews marched through the city of
Beersheba, also chanting "death to Arabs".</p>
<p>Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz ordered a "massive
reinforcement" of border police across the territory on Thursday,
saying, "we're in an emergency", according to <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-gantz-orders-massive-police-reinforcement-to-quell-unrest-amid-jewish-arab-clashes-1.9804113" target="_blank">Haaretz</a>.</p>
<h3>West Bank</h3>
<p>Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on
Wednesday, as tensions flared in the occupied Palestinian territory
into the late hours of the night, with Palestinians taking to the
streets to protest against Israeli aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip
and occupied East Jerusalem, and ongoing violence targeting Palestinian
citizens of Israel. </p>
<p>Early in the morning, Israeli forces killed two Palestinians -
16-year-old Rashid Abu Arreh from the northern West Bank city of Tubas,
and 28-year-old Hussein al-Titi from the Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron
- during two of a series of raids across the West Bank, in which
Israeli forces arrested 40 Palestinians. </p>
<p>Later on Wednesday, local media reported that Israeli forces shot and
killed another Palestinian man allegedly involved in a shooting attack
south of Nablus that reportedly left two Israeli soldiers injured. </p>
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<p>Palestinian media identified the man as 36-year-old Mohammed Omar Saeed, a former prisoner from the Ras al-Ain area of Nablus. </p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Health confirmed all three
deaths, adding that at least 27 Palestinians had been injured across
the West Bank during confrontations with Israeli forces that lasted into
the late hours of Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Several other areas in the occupied West Bank witnessed confrontations, reported MEE correspondent Shatha Hammad. </p>
<p>Twenty people were hospitalised in Hebron, the scene of much of the violence; seven in Nablus, and five in Tulkarem.</p>
<p>There were also violent crackdowns in the villages of Al-Mughayer,
east of Ramallah, and Jayyus, northeast of Qalqilya, on the morning of
the first day of Eid al-Fitr.</p>
<p>In the afternoon, the Israeli army announced that one of its
operatives had been run over near the Givat Asaf settlement, which is
built on land around Ramallah. The army said the suspected attacker fled
the scene and i still the focus of a manhunt.</p>
<p>The Israeli army also deployed military checkpoints, and launched campaigns of arrest and detention against Palestinians.</p>
<h3>Gaza</h3>
<p>The death toll from the Israeli air strikes on Gaza, now in their
fourth day, reached 83 on Thursday, while Hamas continued to fire
retaliatory rockets towards Israeli cities, causing casualties.</p>
<p>According to<a href="http://wafa.ps/Pages/Details/23626" target="_blank"> Wafa</a>
news agency, Gaza rescue crews recovered the bodies of a Palestinian
couple from under the rubble of a building at dawn on Thursday; Israeli
forces on Wednesday night had targeted Sheikh Zayed City in the town of
Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Gaza's health ministry on Thursday said 17 children and seven women were among the dead, while 487 people had been wounded.</p>
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<p>In Israel, six civilians, including a five-year-old child, have been
killed as a result of the missiles fired by Palestinian armed factions,
according to<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-flare-up-teen-father-killed-in-city-of-lod-as-central-israel-comes-under-gaza-1.9796891" target="_blank"> Israeli media</a>. One soldier has also been killed.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israel's army on Thursday said it had received a rocket
warning in the north of the country, the first time the alert has been
triggered there since hostilities soared earlier this week.</p>
<p>The approximately 1,500 rockets fired from Gaza since Monday by the
Qassam Brigades, the Hamas movement's military wing, had so far set off
warnings in southern and central Israel, but not in the north, the army
said.</p>
<p>However in the small hours of Thursday morning, alarms not only
sounded in the economic capital Tel Aviv in the middle of the country -
where residents rushed to shelters - but also in Jezreel Valley in the
north.</p>
<p>The missiles led an incoming flight to be diverted away from Ben
Gurion Airport on Thursday, with the plane landing in a southern airport
designed to serve as a wartime alternative to its main international
gateway outside Tel Aviv, aviation tracker Avi Scharf said on Twitter.</p>
<p>The army also said in a<a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1392616491053461508" target="_blank"> tweet</a> that it had targeted "strategically significant buildings belonging to Hamas & a Hamas naval force squad".</p>
<p>The targets of the air strikes included Hamas' main bank and counterintelligence infrastructure, the army added.</p>
<h3>Jerusalem</h3>
<p>Confrontations broke out in several areas in Jerusalem, according to
MEE correspondent Latifeh Abdellatif, including in Al-Issawiya, Al-Tur,
Sheikh Jarrah and Damascus Gate.</p>
<p>According to the Palestinian health ministry, 51 people in the city were hospitalised overnight.</p>
<p>Israeli ultra-nationalists also attacked Palestinian youths,
including one who was stabbed on Jaffa Street, and others in Silwan.</p>
<p>Another Palestinian was wounded in the Al-Suwana neighbourhood.</p>
<p>As for Sheikh Jarrah, where attempts to forcibly displace Palestinian
families sparked country-wide protests, security forces cracked down on
Palestinians while protecting groups of settlers throwing stones and
water bottles at them. </p>
<p>The police accompanied dozens of heavily armed settlers into the
neighbourhood, Abdellatif reported, and didn’t stop them ransacking the
area.</p>
<p>The violence looks to be far from over. Text messages seen by MEE on
Thursday appear to show plans by Israeli far-right gangs to mount
further attacks against Palestinians on Thursday night.</p>
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