Yehuda Schlesinger, the ultra-Orthodox correspondent for the newspaper 'Israel Hayom', who was injured last night in the angry demonstration by members of the Ethiopian community in Tel Aviv, recounted what happened this morning in an interview with the program 'Eight to Ten' with Mordechai Lavie on the radio station 'Kol Brama':
I was at an event and was hit by a grenade that exploded between my legs. Not bad, not terrible. Feels good, leg is bandaged, wounds like that. Other than that, everything is fine. There were police officers there who were hit much harder, they got hit by blocks in the face.
Usually people who are affected by the police's activities are very angry with them. I'm telling you that yesterday I inhaled the smoke, I was hit by the grenade, and then by the magazine - and I'm telling you that the police were a spectator yesterday.
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Note that most of the injured, except for the 12 members of the Ethiopian community, are all police officers - and Ethiopian police officers.
I was also among the protesters, I know who these people are, I also have videos of them entering the courtyards in Ibn Gabirol, dismantling blocks, breaking them on the floor and shouting: In front, in front, throw them in their faces. This is something else...
What happened yesterday at four in the afternoon, they let them do everything, they blocked Azrieli, then Ayalon and no one did anything. Only in Area Nine, where the story of the blocks has already begun and stores have been smashed, you see pictures from Baltimore and you don't believe that this will happen in Israel.
""I was injured, three guys came and took me aside. Behind me was a group of police officers. They said: Not here, because here they throw stones at us. It's a movie.".
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Regarding the nature of the coverage following what happened, Schlesinger said: "I think that after many years you are neutralized, I was injured by police, they didn't know if I was protesting or not, you look into the eyes and experience it and you report what you see.
""An Ethiopian policeman was lying next to me in the hospital. It's a situation that can't be explained.".
