"There is room to examine all the allegations," he said on Sunday, "but there is no place for this type of violence and breaking of the law."
Netanyahu spoke in the evening with Public Security Ministry Yitzhak Aharonovitch, and is scheduled to convene a meeting in his office Monday with the Ethiopian IDF soldier videoed being beaten by police, as well as with representatives of all the relevant bodies, including the police, welfare authorities, and representatives of the Ethiopian community, absorption, interior and public security ministries.
[jpost.com]
3/5/15
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- Ethiopian Israelis clash with police in rally
Israeli mounted police charged hundreds of ethnic Ethiopian citizens and fired stun grenades to try to clear one of the most violent protests in memory in the heart of Tel Aviv.
Hundreds of Israeli Jews of Ethiopian origin blocked a main Tel Aviv road, stepping up anti-racism protests triggered by a video clip that showed policemen shoving and punching a black soldier.
"There is no white. There is no black. There are just people," the demonstrators chanted.
They marched onto the Ayalon highway, a central artery of Israel's commercial capital.
Police, who diverted vehicles away from one section of the road, did not immediately confront the protesters but said they would move in if their orders to disperse were ignored.
The executive director of Tebeka, an organisation that promotes equality and justice for Ethiopian Israelis, said the community had been shocked by the recent incident.
Tensions rose after the incident a week ago in a Tel Aviv suburb, where a closed circuit video camera captured a scuffle between a policeman and a uniformed soldier of Ethiopian descent.
Two policemen were suspended on suspicion of using excessive force.
Israeli politicians, stung by community leaders' comparison of the incident to police violence against blacks in the United States, scrambled to defuse tensions.
Tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in dramatic, top-secret operations in the 1980s and 1990s after a rabbinical ruling that they were direct descendants of the biblical Jewish Dan tribe.
The community, which now numbers around 135,500 in Israel, has long complained of discrimination, racism and poverty.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, taking time out from the final days of negotiations with political parties on forming a coalition government, said he would meet Ethiopian activists and the soldier tomorrow.
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Israël: une cinquantaine de blessés lors d'une manifestation contre les violences policières...
ReplyDeleteUne cinquantaine de personnes, en majorité des policiers, ont été blessées dans des heurts dimanche soir à Tel-Aviv après un rassemblement contre les violences policières et la discrimination dont sont victimes les Israéliens d'origine éthiopienne.
La police montée a tiré des grenades assourdissantes pour disperser la foule et l'empêcher de s'en prendre à la mairie de Tel-Aviv, a constaté un journaliste de l'AFP.....rtl.be
4/5/15
Over 40 Injured as Police Clash With Rallying Ethiopian Jews in Tel Aviv...
ReplyDeleteIsraeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told RIA Novosti on Sunday night that demonstrators in the Rabin Square threw stones at law enforcement officers, who waited about 15-20 minutes before using stun grenades and water cannons to disperse the protesters.
"The situation is under control now," the spokesman said, adding that demonstrators damaged several cars and police had to conduct some arrests, although the exact number of those detained has not been released.
According to ambulance employees, a total of 41 people were injured in the clashes; the majority of those hurt received only minor wounds. Rosenfeld said the injured include 23 law enforcement members.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Israel's second most populous city on Sunday to protest alleged police discrimination after a video emerged earlier this week showing policemen beating a soldier of Ethiopian origin.
The Tel Aviv rally was attended mostly by Ethiopian Jews, as well as representatives of other ethnic groups.
On Thursday, another rally against police brutality toward Ethiopians turned violent in Jerusalem.
Thousands of Ethiopian Jews relocated to Israel during two waves of immigration in 1984 and 1991, organized by the Israeli government. Currently, over 130,000 people of Ethiopian origin reside in Israel....http://sptnkne.ws/hvb
4/5/15
Police update: 63 hurt, 43 arrested in Tel Aviv anti-racism protest ...
ReplyDeleteA protest Sunday against racism and police brutality initiated by Ethiopian Israelis left 63 injured and 43 arrested, police said on Monday.
Of those hurt, 56 were security forces and seven were demonstrators, according to police.
jpost.com
4/5/15