Israel: in clashes with police injured 23 protesters – Polish Radio

  According to the media, in protests attended by about 10,000 people. The police assessed the number of demonstrators at 3,000 , photo: EPA / DANIEL BAR
 

Police used auditory grenades and water cannons to disperse a crowd of demonstrators. Those officers threw stones, bottles and chairs of street cafés.

“There was nobody to talk to”

Israel’s Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonowicz said that the dispersion “rebels” was difficult because the demonstrators did not have a leader. – There was no one to talk to – he said. In turn, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “all complaints against police brutality be investigated”. – However, for acts of violence have no place – he stressed.

Demonstrations against the brutality of the police

Several thousand people, mostly Ethiopian Jews, demonstrated against discrimination, racism and the brutality of the Israeli police. It was the second protest action of disclosure of video, where police beat a black soldier. Three days earlier similar protests and clashes with police took place in Jerusalem. Police used water cannons then. Were injured at least 13 people.
– “There is no white, no black, there are only men!” and “Brutal police to jail!” – Chanted the demonstrators, marching the main thoroughfare of Tel Aviv.

“I am here to fight for their rights”
Israeli TV Channel Two reported that they came to Tel Aviv Felaszowie from all over the country. – I’m here to fight for their rights – conceded a woman named Batel, who came to Tel Aviv from Nazareth in northern Israel. – I do not want the police beat me. My parents emigrated here for a reason. I want equal treatment – said the 21-year-old, who did not want to reveal his identity.

Felaszowie: we are discriminated against

For more than 8 million inhabitants of Israel about 135000 Jews from Ethiopia. Tens of thousands of Israeli army Felaszów transported by air in the years 1984-1990 in response to the prevailing famine in Ethiopia, after the rabbis ruled that Felaszowie are direct descendants of one of the 12 tribes of Israel, Dan.
Felaszowie for a long time complain Israel on discrimination, racism and poverty. According to official data Felaszów household income is about 35 percent. lower than the national average, and only half of young people complete secondary education. For the rest of the Israeli population the figure is 63 percent.

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