Israel is stepping up its fight against community violence and Gaza rocket attacks

Israeli security forces fought to exacerbate community violence in their cities as Gaza stepped up operations against a Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Jews and minority Israelis they fought against each other from one day to the next in several Israeli towns, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to hold the incidents “with great force” and warned that violence could worsen.

According to Israeli media, the worst unrest over the years escalated with a soldier being beaten in Jaffa, a policeman shot in Loden and another synagogue set on fire. Outbreaks of mafia violence in the country were reported as large groups of Arab and Jewish men challenged local houses.

Clashes broke out between Israeli citizens when the Israeli military added five-day tanks and artillery Air campaign against Hamas, Has killed 119 Palestinians, including 38 women and children, according to Gaza health officials.

The Palestinian militant group continued to fire rockets at Israel, directing hundreds of others south of Tel Aviv, Ashdod and the Red Sea, as the Jewish state directed international flights. Hamas has fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel since Monday. Seven Israelis, including a soldier and a child, have been killed.

“We are working on a two-front campaign – in Gaza [and] In Israeli cities, “Netanyahu said late Thursday after several thousand police officers were taken to Israeli cities in the occupied West Bank.

The Arab-Israeli conflict has been dominated by fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian factions in the occupied territories for more than a decade, but communal violence within Israel has added a dangerous new dynamic.

Israeli Arabs make up about one-fifth of the population of the Jewish state, including Israeli passports and vote in the country’s elections. But they say they suffer from institutional and social discrimination, and sympathy for the Palestinian cause has become a target for right-wing Israeli politicians.

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