Anti-Israel rioters set fires around the Israeli embassy as they clashed with police in Mexico City on Tuesday.
Local media reported that around 200 demonstrators participated in an “Urgent Action for Rafah” event that comes after a month-long effort by Israel’s military to secure the southern Gazan city from Hamas terrorists.
Social media accounts showed masked protesters throwing objects and incendiary devices at barricaded law enforcement officials, while several fires can be seen in the background.
“Tonight, a violent demonstration was held in front of the embassy of Israel in Mexico City,” the foreign ministry in Jerusalem said in a statement, confirming that “Israeli diplomats were not harmed, and small damage was done to the vicinity of the embassy.”
The Associated Press reported that six of the security personnel were injured in the altercations.
“This is what Hamas supporters mean when they chant ‘globalize the intifada’. Hamas and their global proxy network of protestors export violence and terror — from Israel to around the world,” Israel Bachar, the Consul General of Israel to the Pacific Southwest told The Foreign Desk.
“There is no peace or coexistence in this movement. Thankfully, the Israeli diplomats and their families were safe from harm. But let that not distract from the facts: they were intent on attacking the Israeli embassy,” Bachar said.
The violence came on the day after Mexico filed a request to join South Africa’s campaign at the International Court of Justice to adjudicate the Jewish state as guilty of failing to prevent genocide against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The incident at the diplomatic compound follows a February grenade attack on the country’s embassy in Stockholm and a November car-ramming incursion at its embassy in Tokyo.
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