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Thousands demonstrate in Tamra against police incompetence in dealing with crime

After the death of the student resident of the city and the injury of a doctor in an exchange of fire between police and criminals, hundreds of people marched in protest.

Police blocked Route 70 in the area of ​​Yavor Junction

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Yoav Itiel

Saturday, 06 February 2021, 16:00 Updated: 16:31

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Live broadcast of the protest in Tamra (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Thousands of people demonstrate today (Saturday) in Tamra against the incompetence of the police in eradicating crime in the evening sector.

This, after a week in which Ahmed Hijazi, a 22-year-old city resident nursing student, was killed in an exchange of fire between police and criminals, and a city resident doctor, Dr. Muhammad Aramush, was injured. Prior to the protest, police blocked Route 70 in the nearby Yavor Junction area.

The tragic result of the violent encounter of the police and criminals in the village, led to a further escalation in the relations of the residents in the area with the police. Fuel for the flames.

Yesterday, about a thousand people rioted at the Umm al-Fahm police station and called on the station commander to resign, following an interview he gave to the radio, in which he explained crime in the city as having a "cultural interest", and to a follow-up question explained that "cultural interest is illegal weapons possession. ".

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Protest procession in Tamra, tonight (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

"Our culture is the most beautiful and progressive," MK Yosef Jabarin (joint list) said yesterday. "The problematic culture is that of the police, who do nothing to protect the young." Today, ahead of the demonstration in Tamra in response to another interview published in the media MK Jabarin said that "Superintendent Shimon Lavi, the commander of the Northern District Police, on whose watch our sons were murdered, is shifting the responsibility for the police's failures to lead the Arab public. There is no limit to insolence, disconnection and condescension."

She added that "these are dangerous statements and an official should not speak in this way against the elected leadership of about one-fifth of the citizens."

He said, "He also said that the police 'may kill anyone who dares to harm them' is dangerous and has the potential to give the police a license to kill in Arab localities, when Arab society mourns the loss of student Ahmad Hijazi in Tamra."

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