On video: the video that led to the attack of 3 young men from Umm al-Fahm (documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
Young people threw stones at a young man's apartment in south Tel Aviv yesterday (Saturday), after suspecting that he was gay.
"Stones began to be thrown one after the other. If any of us had sat down, a stone would have hit us in the head."
The young man, his uncle Adrai, was rehearsing with his friends for a drag show on the balcony of his house.
Young people passing by on the street saw them and started cursing Adrai due to his sexual orientation.
After that, the young men threw stones at the apartment several times.
According to Adrai, after he complained to the police, the policeman did not take a statement, and the young men were not caught.
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"It's sad that this is the place we are in," his uncle Adrai, the young man at whose house stones were thrown (photo: official website, the Association for the LGBT)
"While we were rehearsing, we heard calls from outside of curses and sayings that shouted 'Ya homo'. I went out and saw three young boys, I tried to talk to them and calm the spirits."
Adrai said, "When we entered the living room, stones began to be thrown one after the other. One of the times they threw, I realized that if one of us had been sitting, a stone would have hit him in the head."
Adrai continues and shares his feelings following the incident.
"After this government was established, which found the gay community as a scapegoat, our situation has become worse. Their hatred and statements seep into the street, the incitement reaches the youth and not only and I ask myself where we have come from? Why this darkness and why does someone who carries the burden of the country with love have to go through such things They are similar to pogroms. I am sad that this is where we are. I see before my eyes the destruction of the house and my heart aches."
A stone thrown at Adrai's house (photo: official website, the LGBT Association)
The chairman of the Association for the LGBT community, Hila Par, said that "we are once again witnessing the rampant rise of LGBT-phobia in the streets that does not spare any of us.
For some time now we have been warning about the incompetence of the police and we are strangers and say: if there is no overall policy change in the treatment of LGBT-phobia cases, more and more LGBT people will be harmed.
We won't let that happen.
The police must immediately take responsibility for their incompetence and the omissions that occur on the ground at our expense."
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