A teenage boy was assaulted by a group of minors in Petah Tikva on Tuesday evening, police report. The victim was beaten and the attack was recorded and reportedly distributed online. Central District police have opened an investigation; no arrests have been reported yet.
A teenage boy was assaulted by a group of minors in Petah Tikva on Tuesday evening, in an attack that police say was recorded and circulated online. Central District police have opened an investigation; no arrests have been reported as of 21:38 Jerusalem. The incident comes just over five hours after The Zioneer first reported a separate, more severe attack in the same city: at 16:08 Jerusalem, the desk reported that a 15-year-old boy had been hospitalized after being violently beaten by a group of youths — an incident described as a lynching, also recorded and shared online. By that same hour, police had arrested several minors from Rosh HaAyin on suspicion of involvement in that earlier assault. The new attack does not appear to be connected, but follows a similar pattern of youth violence captured on video and distributed on social media. As The Zioneer reported on June 10, a recent indictment was filed against four minors for assaulting a 17-year-old over a dispute involving intimate images; and on June 18, a 16-year-old was moderately injured in a violent incident at a playground in nearby Bnei Brak. It remains unclear whether the suspects in the new attack are known to police, and what charges may be brought.
5 developments
- StrongThree arrested for assault at the Little Western Wall in Jerusalem
- StrongFour minors indicted for assault of 17-year-old over intimate images dispute
- DevelopingMan, 48, moderately wounded in Petah Tikva violence incident
- DevelopingThree suspects indicted for violent robbery of two minors in Tel Aviv
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