TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African migrants.
The remarks came a day after bloody protests by rival groups of Eritreans in south Tel Aviv left dozens of people injured. Eritreans, supporters and opponents of Eritrea’s government, faced off with construction lumber, pieces of metal and rocks, smashing shop windows and police cars. Israeli police in riot gear shot tear gas, stun grenades and live rounds while officers on horseback tried to control the protesters.
Look what they dead to Eritrean immigrants who were protesting rights abuses back home they almost beat them to death! They should be deported back to the regime they support.@israelpolice #Eritrea #Israel pic.twitter.com/Wv5yxWSLxi
— . (@WZA_4) September 2, 2023
You are watching pro-Eritrean government demonstrators in Israel, who claimed to be “asylum seekers" fleeing “Eritrea persecution”.
Now they defend the very regime they fled, using sticks, stones, weapons, and sharp objects, attacking genuine Eritrean refugees and Tigrayans. pic.twitter.com/CNwzrke9jV
— James J. Marlow (@James_J_Marlow) September 2, 2023
Meanwhile in Canada …
‘All hell was breaking loose’: Rival Eritrean groups clash in northeast Calgary Saturday night
A violent clash between two groups shut down traffic in a northeast Calgary neighbourhood Saturday evening.
The confrontation, between two Eritrean groups, closed Falconridge Boulevard in both directions between Castleridge Blvd. and McKnight Blvd. N.E.
“Around six o’clock, maybe 150 to 200 young guys gathered in this parking space and then they were holding long sticks in their hands and then they rushed towards the other side,” said Mian Wahid, who was in the area when the fight broke out.
