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"Two people were lynched here and do not know about it": Documentation of a night of riots at the Binyamina junction

Only one indictment is expected to be filed due to disturbances that occurred at the intersection about two weeks ago, in which hundreds of people participated and during which Arab passers-by were attacked for hours.

Workers at the compound claim that the attacks were met with a nervous response from police forces, and that the events ended miraculously only due to the intervention of civilians

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Yoav Itiel

Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 10:20 p.m.

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In the video: Documentation of a lynching in the evening at Binyamina Junction, May 12, 2021 (documentation on social networks according to section 27A of the Copyright Law)

The Haifa District Attorney's Office filed a prosecutor's statement in the Hadera Magistrate's Court yesterday (Monday) against the city's resident, Roman Levitan, 33, due to riots in which he took part in the Binyamina junction on May 12. Hundreds of people took part in the violent riots that took place at the place during Eid al-Fitr, but it appears that an indictment will be filed only against Leviathan, who is accused of hitting a man on the head with a metal hammer and injuring him. Levitan's detention was extended until tomorrow, when the indictment will be filed, while at the same time the prosecution is expected to request an extension of his detention until the end of the legal proceedings against him. Defense counsel argues that the case filed against Levitan is "without nationalist marks."

However, it is difficult to estimate exactly what attack Levitan was involved in, due to the amount of violent incidents that occurred that night at the Binyamina junction on Road 4. The events of that night continue to keep sleep out of the eyes of Naaman Satuy and his mother Shoshi, the gas station complex.

"Two people were lynched here, and I have a feeling that because the attackers are Jews, it did not get publicity," says Shoshi.

"People do not know about it at all. They know there was a demonstration at the intersection, but what I saw here is a show I have never seen. At the events of October 2000 it was not like that here."

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"There were terrible sights here."

From the attacking events at Binyamina Junction, this month (Photo: Photos by surfers)

Since no orderly report was recorded of everything that happened at the intersection, it is difficult to estimate the extent of the incidents that occurred that night. However, according to Naaman and Shoshi, it appears that at least two lynchings took place during the night. "It started when they came in black shirts and sang their songs," Shoshi describes. "They pounced on cars. Something like ten cops just stood there, while people with firecrackers and cigarettes roamed my gas station. I tried to involve the cops, but they said they could not mess with it at that moment. There were horrible sights here."

On that stormy evening, Eid al-Fitr, the end of the Ramadan fast, falls, an evening that business owners regularly recognize as particularly busy.

Despite this, no previous experience had prepared Naaman and Shoshi for the events.

"They threw stones at passing cars, hit them with batons, and they escaped while getting on traffic islands and driving in the opposite direction. People just ran away to save their lives," Shoshi recalls.

"There was a bunch of people here who came to do a pogrom, who were looking to kill Arabs. Every time someone shouts' Arab 'or' leftist - everyone runs in the direction. They also cursed the policemen, who used some stun grenades, some gas, but it was not a force that could help. Ali also shouted 'Take her phone, slut'.

"I locked myself inside the station's convenience store."

Damage caused to a store at Binyamina Junction (Photo: Surfers photos, without)

Naaman Satuy says that he arrived at the gas station complex to work on the eve of the holiday, but that around 20:00 he heard the voice of a crowd coming from the direction of Or Akiva, some wrapped in Israeli flags, which read "Death to the Arabs" and "Muhammad is dead." He said about 200 people began to gather and march along Route 4. "A store manager on the other side of the intersection quickly closed the store's iron shutters while the rioters hit them with sticks," he describes, noting that the two Arab workers at the gas station found a hiding place and hid there. "I, too, locked myself inside the station's convenience store, with the door locked for about four hours."

According to Naaman, the police officers who were at the scene did not prevent the riots. "At some point people came to the store shouting 'There is an Arab here,' and I was amazed to say I shouted back 'I am a Jew, I am a Jew.' If it were not for my mother who stood outside the store and confronted them, they would probably have killed me," he says. "I texted the workers that God forbid they would not come out of their hiding place, because if they came out then they would kill them for sure. It was so hallucinatory. It was like in the movie 'Disrespectful Bastards of Trentino.'"

Police admit they did not expect a riot of this magnitude, and that they arrived with too little force to take over the crowd. There were also parallel incidents in Givat Olga and Jisr a-Zarqa that the police required of them that evening. In front of the policemen at the junction, masked men were indeed rioting, when suddenly they noticed a crowd running towards someone and attacking him with an iron hammer, stabbing and beating him. According to police, one of the officers jumped on him and made the arrest.

"Police are standing, and ten meters from it are burning tires."

Yiftach Akivaev, who jumped to the aid of a man who was attacked (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

The second dramatic event that occurred that evening ended in a half-miracle, after citizens intervened in favor of an Arab who was attacked by the rioters on the grounds of his origin.

Shlomi Selma from Binyamina and his brother Guy Selma from Or Akiva, former YSM police officers, noticed a crowd attacking an Arab man, who returned on foot from work in the Or Akiva industrial zone. The two protected him and saved him from death. At the border for 21 years, to the aid of a person who was attacked.

"Police are standing and watching, and ten meters away they are burning tires," he says.

He said, "I asked the interrogator how it could be that everything was done meters away from the police, and you would not believe what he answered me - he replied that it was happy, that it had a permit. What permit could there be for such a thing? From whom? From Bibi?"

The life of this man who was attacked was saved, but he was seriously injured and the MDA emergency team evacuated him to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera.

"Watch the video and the pictures, you will see how people physically defended a resident of Jisr a-Zarqa who was lynched," says Advocate Murad Amash of Jisr a-Zarqa. "Despite the severe crisis in Arab-Jewish relations, beautiful things are happening here. ".

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The Israel Police responded: "Israeli police officers responded and dealt with multiple arenas in order to provide the best response to incidents in all sectors. and a knife in the other person and interesting approach to prosecution prosecutor's statement and request for remand.

precisely this police action rather than prevented the continuation of the events and the damage to innocent bystanders. is currently continuing Israeli police in "operation Law and order. During the operation runs the police wide powers, using all means at its disposal In order to come to terms with the rioters and bring them to justice. "

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