Anger erupts in Jaffa after racist attack on pregnant Palestinian and her children
Hundreds of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship took to the streets in Jaffa, in the territories occupied in 1948, after Israeli settlers assaulted a pregnant Palestinian woman and her children in the Ajami neighborhood on 13 December.
Protesters demanded accountability and unity in the face of escalating racist attacks, as footage circulated showing the attackers fleeing after spraying the family with pepper spray while they were inside their car.
Palestinian political figures inside the 1948 territories condemned the assault as part of a systematic campaign targeting Palestinians in Jaffa and other mixed cities.
While Israeli police said they opened an investigation, no arrests were announced. Speakers at the protest warned that the attack reflects broader state-backed racism, pointing to repeated assaults, home demolitions, and intimidation against Palestinian communities, and stressed that collective action is essential to confront ongoing settler violence.
Israeli police later arrested Sheikh Issam Satal, deputy head of the Islamic Council in Jaffa, following his participation in a protest held Tuesday evening against the settler attack on the Palestinian woman and her children.
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