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Videos: Jerusalem “lynch mobs” attack Palestinians after Israeli teens’ funerals


From the Electronic Intifada

Update, 2 July: Vigilante killing suspected

Palestinian youth Muhammed Abu Khudair, 16, was reported by residents of Shuafat, in eastern occupied Jerusalem, to have been kidnapped. Israeli police confirmed finding the body of a Palestinian youth with signs of violence in a wooded area. Israeli authorities suspect that the killing may have been a revenge attack.

Witnesses said “that footage from surveillance cameras shows Israelis stepping out of a Hyundai in front of Abu Khudair’s house and forcing the teen inside before speeding off,” Ma’an News Agency reported.

Youths in Shuafat have been clashing with occupation forces for hours. Occupation forces have closed the area. The Twitter user @BDS4Justice lives in the area and has been posting regular updates.





Original post

Since the bodies of three missing Israeli youths were discovered in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Israeli politicians have whipped the public up with demands for “revenge.”

The videos in this post show disturbing footage of significant crowds of young Israelis marching through the streets of Jerusalem on Tuesday evening chanting “Death to the Arabs” – “mavet la’aravim” in Hebrew.

In some of the footage those chanting appear to be young children.

“Lynch mobs”

Ynet reported that “Police forces managed to rescue eight Arabs from the mob and arrested 47 on charges of public disorder, attempted assault of Arab minors, assaulting police officers, and property damage.”

Ynet posted its own footage of incidents “where the protesting mob posed a threat to an individual Arab and police officers struggled to separate and protect an innocent life from the enraged rightwing extremists.”

Video posted by Ynet showed “one Arab man being rescued from the mob and a group of Arab workers being attacked in a parking lot.”

Police prevented the mobs from entering the Old City of eastern occupied Jerusalem “in an attempt to prevent further lynch attempts,” Ynet said. more

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