Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/in-suspected-jerusalem-lynch-dozens-of-jewish-youths-attack-3-palestinians-1.459002




In suspected Jerusalem lynch, dozens of Jewish youths attack 3 Palestinians

One of the Palestinians was seriously wounded
and hospitalized in intensive care; eyewitness: Today I saw a lynch with
my own eyes. Dozens of Jewish youths attacked three young Palestinians
in Jerusalem's Zion Square early on Friday morning, in what one witness
described as "a lynch" on Facebook.


One of the Palestinians was seriously wounded and hospitalized in
intensive care in Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem. Acting
Jerusalem police chief, General Menachem Yitzhaki, gas set up a special
team to investigate the incident and detain the suspects.


The three were allegedly attacked by youths shouting "Death to the
Arabs" at them, as well as other racial slurs. One of them fell on the
floor, and his attackers continued to beat him until he lost
consciousness. They subsequently fled from the scene.


Within a short period of time rescue volunteers and Magen David Adom
rescue services arrived on the scene, and found the victim with no pulse
and not breathing. After a lengthy resuscitation attempt, he was
transferred to hospital.


Writing on her Facebook page, one eye witness decribed the attack as a
lynch: "Its late at night, and I can't sleep. My eyes are full of tears
for a good few hours now and my stomach is turning inside out with the
question of the loss of humanity, the image of God in mankind, a loss
that I am not willing to accept."


"But today I saw a lynch with my own eyes, in Zion Square, the center
of the city of Jerusalem ….. and shouts of 'A Jew is a soul and Arab is a
son of a –,' were shouted loudly and dozens (!!) of youths ran and
gathered and started to really beat to death three Arab youths who were
walking quietly in the Ben Yehuda street," the witness wrote.


"When one of the Palestinian youths fell to the floor, the youths
continued to hit him in the head, he lost consciousness, his eyes
rolled, his angled head twitched, and then those who were kicking him
fled and the rest gathered in a circle around, with some still shouting
with hate in their eyes."


"When two volunteers [from local charities] went into the circle, they
tried to perform CPR the mass of youths standing around started to say
resentfully that we are resuscitating an Arab, and when they passed near
us and saw that the rest of the volunteers were shocked, they asked why
we were so in shock, he is an Arab. When we returned to the area after
some time had passed, and the site was marked as a murder scene, and
police were there with the cousin of the victim who tried to reenact
what happened, two youths stood there who did not understand why we
wanted to give a bottle of water to the cousin of the victim who was
transferred to hospital in critical condition, he is an Arab, and they
need don’t need to walk around in the center of the city, and they
deserve it, because this way they will finally be afraid," she added.


"Children aged 15-18 are killing a child their own age with their own
hands. Really with their own hands. Children who's hearts were unmoved
when they beat to death a boy their age who lay writhing on the floor."