Volunteers of different ethnicities are working to help victims of the violence and tidy up bomb shelters.. About 20% of Israel’s 10 million-strong population identifies as Arab, including the Muslim, Christian and Bedouin communities: they face systemic discrimination.
In May 2021, during the last war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules the Gaza Strip, the streets of Israel were gripped by a frightening phenomenon not seen in decades: widespread intercommunal violence between the country’s Jewish and Arab citizens.
Homes, businesses, schools, synagogues, mosques and cemeteries were attacked in riots that left at least three people dead. Those memories are still fresh; the amplified distrust between neighbours in towns and cities with mixed populations has not abated.
But since the new wave of violence engulfing the region began on 7 October – when Hamas burst through the Gaza security fence and rampaged through dozens of Israeli communities, killing 1,400, leading Israel to declare a war on the strip that has killed 2,200 – some have found hope in the ability of Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel to band together. Thousands of volunteers of different ethnicities are working to help victims of the violence and clean up neglected bomb shelters, amid many other efforts at calming the heightened tensions around the country….
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/15/examples-jewish-arab-solidarity-offer-hope-israel
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