Police say they removed graffiti in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood which expressed support for Hamas’s murderous attacks on October 7.
In addition to Palestinian flags, graffiti included the slogan “1400 Zionist terrorists neutralized,” a reference to the death toll in the devastating attacks in southern Israel, and “Zionists = Nazis.”
As police carried out their activities, rioters threw eggs, water, bottles and rocks at officers, and chanted insults including “Nazi terrorists.”
Mea Shearim is a bastion of hard line ultra-Orthodox sects.
A number of groups with a presence in the neighborhood, such as Neuterai Karta, are strongly opposed to Israel’s existence and reject cooperating with the state.
In recent years, soldiers have been attacked in the neighborhood, and their have been incidents involving the burning of Israeli flags and effigies of IDF soldiers.