THE
TIMES OF ISRAEL: Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai
has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that extreme-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir
is responsible for ongoing riots in Jewish-Arab cities, Israeli TV reported
Thursday.
During a briefing, Shabtai said that
every time police appear to be getting an area under control, Ben Gvir, the
Kahanist member of the Religious Zionism party, shows up to fan the flames,
Channel 12 and Channel 13 news both reported.
“The person who is responsible for this
intifada is Itamar Ben Gvir. It started with the Lehava protest at Damascus
Gate,” Shabtai said, referring to far-right demonstrations around Jerusalem’s
Old City. “It continued with provocations in Sheikh Jarrah, and now he is
moving around with Lehava activists.”….
Ben Gvir ceremoniously
moved his office earlier this month to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of
Sheikh Jarrah, where there has been international outcry due to Israeli plans
to evict Palestinian families and hand over the homes to Jews who had proven
their pre-1948 ownership….
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