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In the wake of this month's Jewish-Arab violence, the police have raided a woman’s home while she was sleeping and pulled a man out of the hospital for an interrogation. Rights groups say they're 'crossing every possible red line' ....
May. 28, 2021 12:11 AM Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai said on Thursday the major police operation being carried out in Arab and mixed Arab-Jewish communities where clashes broke out this month will be extended by one week. The announcement followed a meeting by the Knesset s Special Committee on Arab Society Affairs that discussed police figures by which 1,892 people have been arrested over the past month in connection to protests, clashes, riots and violent attacks. Of those arrested, 183 of those arrested are Jewish and the rest are Arabs; 343 are minors. After Gaza, an Israeli-Palestinian struggle for identity: Aluf Benn, Noa Landau and Anshel Pfeffer ....
Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio About 60 of the suspects have been brought before judges to have their detentions extended. The others were released after questioning. Thousands of police officers have been involved in the arrest operation, which began early Monday morning, the police said. The unrest over the past month initially erupted in Jerusalem over the police presence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and tensions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood due to a pending eviction case filed by a Jewish company against Palestinian residents. Clashes between Israeli Jews and Arabs spread around the country, particularly in towns with both Jewish and Arab populations, escalating after the all-out military confrontation that erupted between Israel and Hamas. In the Arab-Jewish town of Lod, a Jewish man died of his injuries from an attack and a number of synagogues were torched. A mosque was also attacked. In the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam a b ....