Arab critically hurt in Arab-Jewish brawl in J'lem.(JPost).A savage fight between Jewish and Arab teenagers in downtown Jerusalem late Thursday night left a 20-year-old Arab man in critical condition, with witnesses calling it a "lynch situation." Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said police are checking into the background of the story and do not know who started the fight. He added that the people involved were between the ages of 15-20, according to eyewitness accounts. Acting Jerusalem police chief Manny Yitzhaki appointed a special team to investigate the issue.“The area is under video surveillance we are checking the cameras,” Ben Ruby said. “We will know what happened after we check the cameras.”
A volunteer from the Elem organization, which provides assistance and hot coffee for troubled youth in downtown Jerusalem at night, wrote in a Facebook post that she heard dozens of Jewish youth shouting curse words at three Arabs and then a fight broke out. "When one of the Arab teenagers fell to the floor, the teenagers 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," she wrote. She added that the Jewish teenagers apparently attacked the group of Arabs without provocation, saying previously that they “wanted to beat up an Arab.” Amir Edri, a Magen David Adom paramedic from their intensive care division, was notified of the attack at 12:10 am. “When we arrived we saw a man about 20 years old on the ground with no pulse,” Edri said. Edri took over lifesaving measures from United Hatzalah medics who were first on the scene. After about 10 minutes of intensive CPR and defibrillators, the man’s pulse returned. He was evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in critical but stable condition.Read the full story here.
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