Date: Saturday, 24 August 2024
Two men have been killed and five others injured in a massive street brawl, apparently between pro-regime and anti-regime Eritrean migrants, in south Tel Aviv this morning, according to Hebrew media reports.
According to the reports, the two men, both Eritrean, were killed during the fight that broke out on Levinksy Street.
Medics quoted in the reports say the two were badly beaten, unconscious and not breathing when paramedics arrived and their deaths were pronounced at the scene.
In a similar incident last month, one person was killed and another seriously injured in a violent brawl that broke out between Eritrean migrants in south Tel Aviv.
Clashes between the two groups are not unusual. In May, a man was stabbed to death in a similar incident in south Tel Aviv, while last September, at least 170 people were hurt — including police officers — in major clashes in the city.
The string of incidents since last year has brought attention to the roughly 20,000 Eritreans who are living in Israel, after entering illegally before the completion of a barrier along the Egyptian border in 2012.
Various Israeli governments have taken a series of measures — some of which were blocked by the courts — to encourage the migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum due to war and oppression in their home country, to leave.
