Merciless Israeli mobs are hunting Palestinians | The Electronic Intifada
All eyes are on Gaza, where the death toll from Israel’s merciless bombing campaign has topped 1,000.
But back in Jerusalem, where sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khudair
was burned alive by Jewish vigilantes in a “revenge killing” incited by
Israeli politicians early this month, right-wing lynch mobs continue to
roam the streets in search of Arabs to attack.
Their most recent victims are twenty-year-old Palestinians Amir
Shwiki and Samer Mahfouz from the Beit Hannina neighborhood in occupied
East Jerusalem. The pair were severely beaten into unconsciousness on
Friday night by Israeli youths armed with iron bars and baseball bats.
Mahfouz told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz
that he and Shwiki were on their way to the light rail when they were
stopped by “a man [coming] from the direction of Neve Yaakov,” an
illegal Jewish-only Israeli settlement in occupied East Jerusalem.
“He said give me a cigarette. I told him I don’t have any, and he
heard [from my accent] I’m Arab and went away, coming back with his
friends, maybe twelve people. They had sticks and iron bars and they hit
us over the head,” Mahfouz recounted.
Haaretz added, “According to the victims, police officers
that arrived at the scene did not call an ambulance, and they were
instead evacuated by passersby to receive medical treatment at a Beit
Khanina [sic] clinic. They were later rushed to Hadassah University
Hospital, Ein Karem in serious condition.”
Right-wing Israelis rioting in Jerusalem earlier this month.
