TAMRA, February 23, 2025 (WAFA) – A general strike took place today in the town of Tamra in 1948-occupied Palestine, in protest against the escalation of crime and the failure of the Israeli police to pursue criminals.
A massive protest march also set off this evening from the Jerusalem roundabout towards the industrial zone, denouncing the murder of student Jawad Amer Yassin, 17.
The participants raised slogans denouncing violence and the complicity of the authorities, stressing that society will not stand idly by in the face of these crimes, amid widespread anger among residents and participants in light of the escalation of murder crimes.
The general strike, which affected all aspects of life, public, economic, commercial and educational facilities, came with a joint announcement from the Tamra Municipality, the Popular Committee, mosque imams, parents' committees, youth committees, and the student council, through a joint statement issued by various frameworks in the city, following the meeting held following the murder.
After the meeting, a protest march set off from the Tamra Municipality to the police station, with the participation of the attendees and the joining of many Tamra residents, expressing denunciation and anger at the police’s negligence and security failure to combat the phenomenon of violence, and to confirm that society will not stand idly by in the face of these crimes.
Palestinian nationals of Israel accuse the Israeli police and government of discriminating against them and not doing enough to stop crime in their towns compared to Jewish towns.
Several protests and calls by the Palestinians in 1948-occupied Palestine, who make up more than 20 percent of the Israeli population, on the government and police to fight the rise in crime in their towns have not yet yielded any significant results with less than a fifth of the crimes be resolved or criminals apprehended.
Palestinians in today's Israel are those who stayed in their land following the establishment of the occupying state of Israel in 1948 and their descendants. They make up about 20 percent of the country's nine million people.
By law, their rights are equal to those of Jewish citizens. But in practice they suffer discrimination in employment, housing, policing and other areas of life.
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