VIDEOS: Israeli Police ‘Use Coronavirus Lockdown Rules’ to Crack down on Palestinians in Jaffa

Palestinians in Jaffa take to the streets to protest police brutality. (Photo: via Activestills)

Palestinian citizens of Israel on Wednesday were beaten by Israeli police in Jaffa when police used coronavirus lockdown rules as cover to crack down on the area’s Arab population.

Civilians took to the streets Wednesday afternoon to defend themselves after allegations that Israeli police had violently and disproportionately targeted Palestinians for breaking quarantine rules.

Videos emerged on Wednesday of large numbers of police crowding around and beating a Palestinian man who did not have his identification documents.

“This is police violence in Jaffa today”, The Mossawa Centre, a Haifa based advocacy group for Palestinian citizens of Israel said in a statement.

“There is clear selective enforcement of coronavirus rules and clearly shows the police are not adhering to social distancing rules themselves,” the group added.

In response to the police violence, Palestinian-Israelis in Jaffa began their protests, burning tires and skips in an attempt to deter the security forces from entering.
Israeli police stormed Jaffa with reinforcements and helicopters, locals say.

Palestinian citizens of Israel makeup 20 percent of the Israeli population and face systematic discrimination and complain of being treated as second-class citizens in comparison to their Jewish counterparts.

(Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, PC, Social Media)

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