{"id":375788,"date":"2018-09-02T06:27:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T05:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sharp-rise-in-right-wing-attacks-on-palestinians-and-israeli-peace-and-rights-activists\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T06:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T05:27:40","slug":"sharp-rise-in-right-wing-attacks-on-palestinians-and-israeli-peace-and-rights-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sharp-rise-in-right-wing-attacks-on-palestinians-and-israeli-peace-and-rights-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp rise in right-wing attacks on Palestinians and Israeli peace and rights activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Sharp rise in right-wing attacks on Palestinians and Israeli peace and rights activists<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Jean Shaoul<br \/>\n    <br \/>1 September 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Last weekend saw violent attacks on Palestinian-Israelis and Israeli peace activists. Ten people were hospitalised with cuts, lacerations, fractures, and other injuries after being attacked by Israeli Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Three Palestinian-Israeli citizens were sitting on the beach at Kiryat Haim, in the northern port city of Haifa, when a young man approached them and asked if they were Arabs. Just minutes after they answered that they were, he returned with nine youths, armed with metal rods, chains, clubs and knives, and attacked them.<\/p>\n<p>Yair Elalouf, a Jewish Israeli who came to their aid and called the police, said that if he and his friend hadn\u2019t intervened, \u201cthey [the attackers] would\u2019ve murdered them.\u201d He said that at least 70 to 80 people witnessed the attack, but none of them intervened or called the police even though the assailants \u201chad brutally beaten them with the clubs for 3-4 minutes, and one of the attackers used an iron chain, maybe of a motorcycle or a bike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victims\u2014Dr Muhammad Yousefeen from the Ichilov Hospital at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, a 28-year-old nurse and a 20-year-old man\u2014said the attack was racially motivated, adding that the attackers swore at them and said, \u201cYou are Arab dogs, don\u2019t stay here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They thanked Elalouf later at the police station, saying, \u201cWithout him, we wouldn\u2019t have stayed alive\u201d and they went to see him to thank him again. He said, \u201cThey took my phone number, wanted to invite me to Shfaram [their neighbourhood] to eat with them, and wanted to come to my house with their families. I told them they are more than welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cPeople ask me all the time, \u2018Did you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/09\/01\/isra-s01.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sharp rise in right-wing attacks on Palestinians and Israeli peace and rights activists By Jean Shaoul 1 September 2018 Last weekend saw violent attacks on Palestinian-Israelis and Israeli peace activists. Ten people were hospitalised with cuts, lacerations, fractures, and other injuries after being attacked by Israeli Jews. Three Palestinian-Israeli citizens were sitting on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}