Naji Abbas, who works for Physicians for Human Rights and is a former activist for the Hadash party at Hebrew University, was arrested around a week ago at a demonstratio
In the wake of this month's Jewish-Arab violence, the police have raided a woman’s home while she was sleeping and pulled a man out of the hospital for an interrogation. Rights groups say they're 'crossing every possible red line'
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Israeli police stand in a street in the mixed city of Lod while Arab rioters are raging nearby, May 12, 2021.
Minister of Homeland Security Amir Ohana (Likud) âreplied on Wednesday in the Knesset Plenum to a parliamentary question by MK Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) on forming a commission of inquiry to examine police conduct during the riots in the mixed cities several weeks ago, and also replied to a parliamentary question by MK Yosef Taieb (Shas) regarding the campaign to collect illegal weapons, which are possessed by and large by Israeli Arabs.
Minister Ohana described the actions taken by police Operation Law and Order, saying: âThese intensive and powerful actions significantly improved the response provided to the citizensâwhich I unequivocally agree was unsuitable at the start of the riotsâand significantly improved the personal security of the residents of the mixed cities.”
May. 28, 2021 12:11 AM
Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai said on Thursday the major police operation being carried out in Arab and mixed Arab-Jewish communities where clashes broke out this month will be extended by one week.
The announcement followed a meeting by the Knesset s Special Committee on Arab Society Affairs that discussed police figures by which 1,892 people have been arrested over the past month in connection to protests, clashes, riots and violent attacks. Of those arrested, 183 of those arrested are Jewish and the rest are Arabs; 343 are minors.
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