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Jun. 3, 2021 6:00 PM
Ninety-one percent of those arrested on suspicion of engaging in violence during the civil unrest in Israel amid the military operation against Hamas were Arab.
Israel launched the military operation, dubbed Operation Guardian of the Walls, in response to rocket fire from Gaza into the Jerusalem area on May 10.
On Thursday, the police announced that they had completed arresting those suspected of involvement in the rioting, which began in Israeli cities with mixed Arab-Jewish populations and in Arab towns amid tensions in Jerusalem and the military confrontation with Hamas in Gaza.