During the last two days over 250 Palestinian young men and women in the 1948 occupied territory (Israel) were arrested by police on allegations of their involvement in recent domestic unrest.
Hasan Jabareen director of the Legal Center for Minority Rights (Adalah) said that a political decision from the Israeli government is behind the recent police practices and arrests in Arab areas describing them as “illegal” and “aimed at terrorizing the Palestinian citizens.”
While avoiding to make arrests among Jewish youths who recently committed terror attacks on Palestinians and their property in Israel the police last Sunday announced the launch of what it called “a law and order campaign” against the Palestinian citizens alone.
During the campaign police forces raided homes of Palestinian citizens arrested dozens of them and interrogated them as a prelude to filing indictments against them.
Israeli police also arrested Israeli activists who showed solidarity with Palestinian citizens and opposed repressive and violent policies and practices used against them.
As of May 9 2021 thousands of Palestinian citizens in Israel took to the streets for several days to express support for their fellow Palestinians who were exposed to military aggression in Gaza and are still facing different Israeli violations in Jerusalem.
Angry Palestinian protests have taken place in predominantly Arab cities and towns like Nazareth and Umm al-Fahm as well as in mixed Arab-Jewish cities like Haifa Jaffa and Lod — where extremist Jewish youths also launched terror attacks on Palestinians and their property fueling the Arab protests that already happened.
