Two groups clashed on Tel Aviv’s HaHagana Street. The participants in the fight threw stones at each other, and eight other people were injured, the police said in a statement.
“Two men from Eritrea were killed in the clash,” the statement said, citing medics.
Police did not specify the circumstances of the men’s deaths, but Israeli media reported that they suffered stab wounds.
An AFP photographer saw one body covered in a white cloth on the footpath at the scene of the collision.
Police have launched an investigation, the statement said.
Similar clashes between two rival factions of Eritrean citizens occurred in September 2023. They injured dozens of people, including Israeli policemen who were trying to quell the riots.
Israel is home to thousands of Eritrean asylum seekers, most of whom came illegally from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
They settled in several poor suburbs of Tel Aviv.
Eritrea has been led by authoritarian President Isaias Afwerki since independence in 1993.
This East African country is one of the most isolated countries in the world. It is near the bottom of the world rankings for press freedom, human rights, civil liberties and economic development.
2024-08-25 01:55:35