JERUSALEM: Dozens of right-wing Jewish activists on Sunday stormed the Arab neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem of a Palestinian gunman who allegedly killed eight Israelis at a Jewish seminary earlier this month, police and witnesses said.
Dozens of protesters broke through police barriers and hurled stones at cars and houses in the neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber, where the family of the alleged attacker lives.
About 200 people had gathered outside the village and a number of the protesters broke through the police barrier, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
“Stones were thrown and 13 people were arrested,” Rosenfeld said. No one was injured in the violence, police said.
The alleged attacker, Ala Abu Dhaim, was buried at night on Thursday after about a week’s delay because police feared a public funeral might trigger protests and violence.
The attack on the Jewish seminary earlier this month was the deadliest Palestinian attack on Israelis in two years and the first major attack in Jerusalem in four years.—Reuters
