A 21-year-old Portuguese man was arrested Tuesday along with a 26-year-old Spanish man on suspicion of insulting the Jewish community in Gibraltar, police in the British territory on Spain’s southern coast said.
Royal Gibraltar police said in a statement on social network Facebook that the two men were arrested on suspicion of “intentional racially aggravated harassment, alarm and disorder following an incident in the city centre”.
The warning was given by members of the public who reported to police that abuse was being shouted at members of the Jewish community at around 9am. [08:00 em Lisboa] on the main street, in the Mothercare area”.
At New Mole House police station, the young Portuguese man was also charged with cannabis possession, police added.
Gibraltar Police also stated in the same note that an investigation is ongoing and that the two men remain in custody.
The Islamist resistance movement Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, dubbed Operation ‘Storm al-Aqsa’, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air.
In response to the surprise attack, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air, in an operation it dubbed “Iron Swords”.
During the invasion of Israeli territory, Hamas took more than a hundred civilian and military hostages, who they took to the Gaza Strip. On the Israeli side, a military official said the death toll was over 1,000.
Israel’s military response, which declared war on Hamas after the attack, caused the deaths of more than 900 people in Gaza, according to the latest reports.
Source: DN
