Barricades in flames, bins and electric scooters set on fire, Molotov cocktails against a Jewish institution: this is how a spontaneous protest vigil in favor of Palestine last night at 9pm at the Brandenburg Gate – a few hours after the news from the Gaza hospital was released – turned into a nightly urban guerrilla fight in the streets of Berlin.
In particular, the headquarters of the Jewish community Kahal Adass Jisroel was targeted with Molotov cocktails, which houses a synagogue, a Yeshiva – a school where the Torah and Talmud are studied, and a kindergarten in the central district of Mitte, in Brunnen Strasse . According to the police reconstruction, two Molotov cocktails were thrown by two people in the direction of the building but the flames did not spread in a risky manner throughout the building.
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No casualties were reported, while the perpetrators of the attack managed to escape. The toll of the night, however, is heavy, there are twenty injured among the police forces and firefighters, who were thrown at them, as is now the practice in Berlin, firecrackers and other pyrotechnic material.
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The police intervened with water cannons to put out the fires but also to disperse the demonstrators, around three hundred, Bild reports. The protests and urban guerrilla warfare moved patchily in different neighborhoods to concentrate as the hours passed in Neukoelln, where spontaneous anti-Israel protests have been repeated in recent days.
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The neighborhood has been the center of demonstrations of support for Hamas since the first day of the attack on Israel on October 7. On that occasion, the Palestinian solidarity network Samidoun took to the streets to give sweets to passers-by to celebrate the attack.
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Last night several residents of the neighborhood took to the streets to help the police put out the fires, reports the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel. «I am also Muslim but this is a catastrophe. They break everything” said one of them.
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An Israeli from Jerusalem, who arrived this morning at the Kahal Adass Jisroel school, where he had been attending the rabbinical seminary for a week, says he is “shocked” at how adventurous he is. «I come from the war in Israel and I thought I was safe here in Germany. Now I feel as insecure as in Israel » he told the Tagesspiegel.
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