Tensions flare as pro-Palestine and pro-Israel groups face-off on Sydney’s Bondi Beach
Sydney’s Bondi Beach and tensions with pro -Israeli groups flared up.
Two competitors erupted on Sunday morning between the protests after the police intervened video.
Unknown people can be heard in the video, loaded on Facebook, shout “too much deportation” and iz you are terrorists here ”.
Hundreds of pro -Palestinian protesters united on the iconic beach on Father’s Day to support Gaza and Sumud Flotilla.
The event was organized by the Jews against the invasions, a pro -Palestinian group, a Jewish -led Jewish group, which called on the “local boards” to participate in the “peaceful activity”.
Despite the presence of a heavy police, the video from the event showed that the protesters were punched during a fight in the steps outside the Bondi pavilion.
NSW police spokesman said no arrests in the afternoon of Sunday afternoon, but that officers still explored a friction reports on the beach.
Police said in a statement, “Officials of the civil servants of the Eastern suburbs, the Command of the Police Region, in response to unauthorized protests today at 8 o’clock Bondi Beach joined.” He said.
“To ensure community security, the local police directed these protests before the public order and the Riot team, the operation operation and the central metropolitan area of the high visibility unit before the crowds disintegrated.
“The police intervened in a fight between the two groups, there was currently no injury report and no arrest was made.
“Investigations about the incident continue.
Police said that the protests ended without further incidents and that the crowds were scattered around 12.00.
The event was criticized by the Conservative Australian Jewish Association as “provocative oluma until Sunday.
The video loaded on Facebook by the organization showed more than 100 pro -Israeli protesters poured in the Israeli flags collected on the grass in the beach area.
In another, pro -Israeli protesters shook the Palestinian flags to the demonstrators on the beach and shout in front of a greens that stating that “stop the genocide arming”.
Waverley Mayor Nemesh told the SKY News to NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley on Thursday that he called to the police to “control or stop the meeting”.
The reports claimed that both protests were largely peaceful with singing and hymn before erupting around 11.30.
Despite the police attempts to separate the two groups, some demonstrators reportedly stayed at the beach when the Tempers began to shine.
