MIDEAST-ISRAEL/ARABS-CLASHES Israeli Arabs clash with Israeli police after fatal shooting

Record ID: 398756

  • Title: MIDEAST-ISRAEL/ARABS-CLASHES Israeli Arabs clash with Israeli police after fatal shooting
  • Date: 9th November 2014
  • Summary: KAFR KANA, ISRAEL (NOVEMBER 9, 2014) (REUTERS) SMOKE BILLOWING FROM TYRES VARIOUS OF ISRAELI ARAB YOUTH HURLING STONES TOWARD ISRAELI POLICE BURNING GARBAGE ISRAELI POLICE RIDING HORSES TO DISPERSE PROTESTERS YOUTH BURNING TRASH CANS AND BLOCKING ROAD VARIOUS OF ISRAELI POLICE TAKING POSITION POLICE RUNNING AFTER PROTESTERS / SKUNK WATER VEHICLE VARIOUS OF POLICE ARRESTING
  • Embargoed: 24th November 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8HU66SSE5JT4NHP7FK22ZPAXN
  • Story Text: Israeli police said a group of up to 40 Israeli Arab youths torched garbage cans and hurled stones at officers on Sunday (November 9), in response to the fatal shooting of a young man in the village of Kafr Kana.
    Police also said they arrested three people during the clashes.
    Khayr al-Din al-Hamdan was shot by police on Saturday (November 8), after he attacked them as they came to arrest a relative in Kafr Kana, in northern Israel.
    Hamdan died of his wounds at a nearby hospital, police said.
    Following the shooting, community leaders of Israel's Arab minority declared a 24-hour general commercial strike, starting on Sunday.
    Israeli Arabs, the majority of them Muslim, make up a fifth of Israel's predominantly Jewish population of 8 million.
    Often they are resentful of entrenched discrimination but they rarely resort to violence.
    Video from a private security camera appearing to show the incident ,showed Hamdan trying unsuccessfully to break the windows of the police van with a sharp object.
    When officers got out of the van, Hamdan retreated and footage showed at least one officer shoot him with a pistol.
    After he fell to the ground, officers were seen dragging Hamdan into the van and it left the scene.
    Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the incident was being scrutinised by the Justice Ministry's police investigations branch.
    One Israeli Arab in the city of Shfar'am said Hamdan was 'murdered in cold blood'.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not tolerate the kind of violence that broke out in Kafr Kana and rioters would be punished to the full extent of the law.
    Hamdan's relative was eventually detained, police said.
    The relative was suspected of setting off a stun grenade against a rival clan in the village where tensions between families often run high.
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