2023-09-02 16:39:45
Firing of stun grenades, rubber bullets but also live ammunition: we witnessed real scenes of riots in the southern districts of Tel Aviv. The police admit that they were taken aback by the scale of the clashes, reports our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michael Paul.
« Unfortunately, since the morning, the parties have not respected the conditions of the permit to demonstrateexplains Hayim Boublil, police chief for south Tel Aviv. They came en masse to prevent the festival. We then decided to use specific means to disperse them. »
Demonstrators in particular ransacked a building where an event organized by the Eritrean embassy was to take place. ” The Eritrean community is divided into two : those who are for the regime and those who are once morestsays Asante, an Eritrean asylum seeker and opponent of the government. I left Eritrea when I was 13. Supporters of the regime wanted to make a festival for their government. And we don’t agree ! »
« The police, who feared for their lives, fired live ammunition at the rioters “, added the police in a press release, specifying that 27 of its members had been injured in the clashes. Police said 39 suspects had been arrested for ” assaulting police officers and throwing stones at them “. Some wore weapons, self-defense gas bombs and electric stun guns ».
Magen David Adom, the equivalent of the Red Cross in Israel, said it treated 114 people, eight of whom were seriously injured. Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital said it had admitted 38 people injured in the clashes, including a dozen who were shot.
Nearly 20,000 Eritrean asylum seekers live in Israel today. Most of them arrived illegally via the Sinai Peninsula and settled in neighborhoods south of Tel Aviv.
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