Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 17/06/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Many Palestinian citizens of Israel were excluded from life-saving infrastructure during the worst nights of the Iran-Israel conflict to date. For Samar al-Rashed, a 29-year-old single mother living in mostly Jewish apartment complex near Acre, the reality of that exclusion came on Friday night. At the shelter door, an Israeli resident blocked their entry, and shut it in their faces. Palestinian citizens of Israel are often subjected to discriminatory policing and restrictions during periods of conflict, including arrest for social media posts, denial of access to shelters, and verbal abuse in mixed cities. In times of war, that discrimination often intensifies. Many have already reported experiencing such discrimination. Palestinian towns and villages in Israel have significantly fewer protected spaces than Jewish localities. In mixed cities like Lydd (Lod), where Jewish and Palestinian residents live side by side, inequality is pronounced. Fear, trauma and anger Samar said the experience of being turned away from a shelter left a psychological scar. She has since moved with her daughter to her parents’ home in Daburiyya, a village in the Lower Galilee. “But when it’s time to protect us, we’re invisible,” says Samar, Yara, Mohammed. “I want safety like anyone else,” says Mohammed yara.
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