Three Israeli Arab teenagers were arrested Monday afternoon after a video began circulating on social media showing one of them throwing a hot cup of coffee in the face of an ultra-Orthodox Jew from the Damascus Gate region of Jerusalem’s old city. , informed the police.
Police arrested three suspects, residents of the old city of Jerusalem, suspected of pouring boiling coffee in front of a passerby at the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/K8n9vNTgrZ– Simcha Cohen (@ Simcha_Cohen4) April 19, 2021
Two of the teenagers were arrested on the spot on Monday morning for filming the incident, while the third fled the scene, and was later arrested by border police at his grandmother’s house in the Issawiya district of East Jerusalem.
The report added that two of the suspects who were arrested are minors, and all three are residents of the old city of Jerusalem.