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‘This is more than a reaction to rockets’: communal violence spreads in Israel Peter Beaumont, Quique Kierszenbaum in Lod, and Sufian Taha in Jerusalem © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty Images The mob that rampaged along the seafront promenade in Bat Yam, a southern suburb of Tel Aviv, started by attacking businesses owned by Palestinian citizens of Israel. The young far-right Jews, some dressed in black and chanting “death to Arabs”, had gathered after a callout on social media that explicitly threatened violence. After smashing the window of an Israeli-Arab-owned ice-cream parlour that is frequented by both communities, then they turned their attention to a passing motorist they had identified as an Israeli Arab, dragging him from his car and beating him savagely before leaving him to lie in the road for 15 minutes until police arrived.

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