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Monday, May 4, 2026
2 Jewish men filmed in Jaffa tearing down posters of Palestinians killed in Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTwo young Jewish men, one of them armed, were filmed last night in Jaffa tearing down posters of Palestinian women and children killed during Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
In footage shared by Tel Aviv-Yafo councilman Amir Badran, the pair are seen removing the posters from a wall in the city’s Arab-majority Ajami neighborhood.
“What are you doing?” the person filming the video asks. “Nothing,” replies one of the men as the other continues to rip down the posters.
The man behind the camera then approaches the pair and asks the armed individual whether he is an active soldier, to which he replies in the affirmative.
“Complete lie, a complete lie here,” says the other man, who then points a finger at others outside the video frame, presumably Arab residents: “You killed us on October 7, you killed us. You are evildoers, you support October 7.”
The army is looking into the incident, an IDF spokesperson tells The Times of Israel.
שני יהודים, אחד מהם חמוש בנשק ארוך, הגיעו אמש סמוך לחצות לכיכר ביפו שבה נתלו תמונות ילדים שנהרגו בעזה, והורידו אותן מעל הקיר במקום. תושבים שביקשו מהם לחדול, נתקלו במטח האשמות ובשירת ״אל תירא ישראל״. גם בינואר תועדו כמה צעירים מורידים תמונות מהאנדרטה העממית – שחודשה לאחר מכן pic.twitter.com/VfidmIfbsz
— Yair Foldes (@Yair_Foldes) May 4, 2026
City councilman Badran, an Arab resident of Jaffa, writes a strongly worded Facebook post against the act in which he calls the two young men “thugs.”
“They think they can erase pain, but Jaffa is not silent,” he writes. “The sea is the same sea, the language is the same language, and the pain is one. They will tear them down, [but we] will hang dozens of pictures in their place.”
Jaffa, home to both Arabs and Jews, has seen heightened ethnic tensions in recent years, partly due to the growth of the local Garin Torani, a loose group of religious Zionist families who strategically relocate to areas with large non-Jewish or non-religious populations.
In December, a group of young Jewish men were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a pregnant Arab woman in the city’s Ajami neighborhood.
The Times of Israel Community.