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LOD, Israel Israel’s prime minister declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to riots spreading across the country that led to schools, synagogues and cars being set ablaze in Jewish neighbourhoods, as the president blamed the chaos on a “bloodthirsty Arab mob.”
A curfew was imposed in the central city of Lod, and the wave of violence spread to cities including Haifa, Acre and Ramla, as Hamas fired hundreds of rockets and Israel continued to bomb the crowded coastal enclave of Gaza.
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Israel's president strongly denounced rioting by Arab-Israelis that has spread across Israel following lethal exchanges of rocket fire and airstrikes over the Gaza border.
Israel's president strongly denounced rioting by Arab-Israelis that has spread across Israel following lethal exchanges of rocket fire and airstrikes over the Gaza border.
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Pablo Duer
Lod, Israel, May 12 (EFE).- The current flare up of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is not confined to the Gaza Strip, but has spread to different parts of Israel, including the ethnically mixed city of Lod, whose Jewish and Arab citizens have been clashing for days in what the mayor has described as a “civil war”.
While Monday night’s barrage of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, and the subsequent retaliatory shelling by Israeli forces, grabbed all the headlines, hotspots were emerging in Israel’s mixed towns.
Hundreds of Israeli Arabs took to the streets to demand an end to the repression in occupied East Jerusalem and especially against last weekend’s riots at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.