Date: Saturday, 24 August 2024
Another eight were injured in clashes in several centers in the south of the city, two of them in serious condition. A source in the Eritrean community said that they warned the police against a violent outbreak on the one year anniversary of the clashes in which dozens of asylum seekers were injured. Central District Commander: The rioters should be expelled from the country
According to the police, one of the officers in the force that arrived at the scene fired in the air "due to the fear of danger to life". Following the clashes, the police closed off Hagana Street from Lavanda Street to Hatzel Street, Levinsky Street to Lavanda Street, and Lavanda Street to Entabi Street. Tel Aviv District Commander Peretz Amar arrived at the scene of the murder, called the situation "unacceptable" and said that The solution should be to expel the violators from the country. "The police alone will not be able to deal with this enclave of South Tel Aviv without the help of the various government ministries. Those who commit serious crimes should be deported from the country, the legal advice to the government should also provide support," said Amar. "This cannot happen and that is why the police are here with large forces at the expense of other tasks. It's a shame that these processes don't have a final leg that those who break the law are not deported."
Abrahala, another member of the church, told "Haaretz" that two children were injured by tear gas sprayed by one of the participants in the fight. "We can't leave here now, we're afraid they want to beat us. We called the police, but they're working the other way around. What's happening here is not a law, either they'll help or not, but why are they coming to break?" Musi, one of the children who was hit by tear gas said that he saw the person who sprayed him. "I was in the church, I heard screams. It was loud, it burned. Now the attackers are hiding everywhere and we can't get out," he said.
Regarding the issue of the warnings that the community claimed were forwarded to the police, district commander Amar said that "the warnings have been in place for a year in a row, the tension in the last year has continued all the time in certain areas". According to him, in the morning there were police officers stationed to separate the parties, but the attackers managed to reach a point where the policemen were not. "This is a very large area and many things can be done here. If they want the violence to happen, it will happen even if there are many policemen," he added.
Police officers at the scene of the brawl that left two Eritrean nationals dead in Tel Aviv. August 24, 2024.(photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI)
The violence starts on Hagana street where one person is stabbed. Another person was stabbed on Levinsky Street near Lavanda Street. Then a man arrived who sprayed with tear gas worshipers who were in the church in the area where a woman and children were affected by the gas. In the documentation, the group of attackers ran south on Lavanda Street with objects in their hands
