Hundreds of Jewish and Arab demonstrators were clashing with police forces Thursday night in Akko's Wolfson neighborhood, this after Yom Kippur saw fierce clashes between the northern city's residents that erupted after an Arab motorist entered a predominantly Jewish area on the holiest of Jewish days.
Police were trying to contain the demonstrators with crowd-dispersing apparatus, including water hoses, stun grenades and gas grenades.
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Naomi Regan has sent out this translation from the YNET Hebrew website:
"According to an eyewitness report published by YNET http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3607155,00.html, Arabs carried out a
planned attack against their Jewish neighbors on Yom Kippur. The witness,
who said he was standing in the main square of the Jewish neighborhood of
Akko, a city with many Muslim residents, when a taxi driven by an Arab
entered the neighborhood Yom Kippur evening at high speed with music blaring
and almost ran down children in the street. Surrounded by angry Jewish
residents, he parked his car, cursed them, and entered a building, where he
targeted residents with objects pitched from the seventh floor. Soon after,
a busload of Arabs bearing truncheons, axes and knives crying: "Death to
the Jews" and "Allah u Akbar" cut a swathe through the crowd of peaceful,
fasting Jews, uprooting trees and street lights, smashing car and store
windows, and destroying everything in their path. Jewish residents, who
were fasting and unarmed, fled, taking shelter in nearby buildings. When
the police arrived (some reported Akko police only had Arab policemen on
duty and they were slow to respond, but this isn't confirmed) and finally
arrested a few of the rioters, several said that this had been a planned
attack which had nothing to do with the specific incident with the cab
driver. Arab residents said some of the rioters were not residents of Akko,
but had come in from outside several days before. There is now a curfew on
the city."
See my new post on How to Plan a Pogrom
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