The shocking images show how a man is pulled out of his car, before he is knocked unconscious by an angry mob. The attack was broadcast on the state television channel Kan and took place in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv.
It took police and ambulance personnel fifteen minutes to arrive at the scene. Meanwhile, the man lay motionless on his back in the middle of the road.
Members of the mob justified the attack by saying that the man was Arab, and claimed he had increased to hit the far-right Israelis with his car. However, the photos show how the man tried to drive away from the ongoing demonstration, before he was pulled out of the car.
– The man lay unconscious for more than 15 minutes before the emergency services arrived at the scene. Photo: Kan 11 Public Broadcaster / AFP
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The victim after the lynching is seriously injured, but the condition is stable, says a hospital in Tel Aviv in a statement according to France24.
Signs of civil war
Right-wing politician Betzalel Smotrich says he is “ashamed” of the “extreme evil” shown during the attack.
– My Jewish brothers, stop! Under no circumstances can we allow ourselves to take part in violent acts, urges the politician, who leads the Party of Religious Zionism.
The country’s leading rabbi, Yitzhak Yossef, also called on the Israelis to stop the violence.
– Innocent people are attacked by terrorist organizations, it hurts and the images are strong, but we can not be provoked and respond with violence, Yossef encourages.
Another politician, who belongs to the left in Israel, says the pictures show a country on its way to a “civil war”.
– As dangerous as Hamas
Defense Minister Benny Gantz says riots and violence against innocent people in Israel are as dangerous as the rockets that Hamas sends at the country.
– Tonight we have, more than ever before, been threatened by internal division. This is no less dangerous than the rockets from Hamas, Gantz said late Wednesday night.
Demonstrations from various right-wing groups took place in a number of cities on Wednesday night. In several places, it led to clashes with the police and Israeli Arabs.
1500 rockets
At the same time, the rocket attacks from both sides continue. Israeli authorities are said to have allowed the army to escalate the attacks on Wednesday night. At the same time, the Israeli defense reports that 1,500 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli cities since Monday.
According to a census by the newspaper Times of Israel has done, seven people have been killed in rocket attacks on the Israeli side since Monday, five of them civilians. The youngest of them was a five-year-old boy.
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