Around 1,000 people gather at Habima Square in Tel Aviv this evening to protest the police response to soaring violent crime in Arab communities, which has claimed 140 lives this year alone.
Over 30 left-wing organizations are participating in the march, which started around 7:30 p.m. and continued to the Tel Aviv Museum.
At the front of the march, demonstrators are carrying 140 coffins, marking the number of those killed in homicides since the start of 2023. Many protesters are dressed in white to commemorate the victims.
Playing off of the Talmudic proverb a banner reading “responsible for one another” greets the demonstrators at the march’s conclusion.
“In Israel, there is a strong and professional police force. If it wanted to, it could defeat crime in Arab society, but it doesn’t want to,” says Ta’al party chairman Ahmad Tibi, speaking at the protest.
“When it wants to, it succeeds in Netanya, Nahariya and Tel Aviv in defeating crime, but the government relates to Arab communities as a backyard. When Arabs murder other Arabs, it hasn’t moved the government in past years, especially not this one,” he adds.
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