Jewish propagandize in Tunisia attacked: Firebomb thrown in Djerba, home to ancient Jewish community
A Jewish propagandize on a Tunisian island that is home to an ancient Jewish village was pounded late on Tuesday as aroused anti-government protests raged elsewhere in a North African country, witnesses said.
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Petrol bombs thrown during a propagandize on a traveller review island of Djerba caused some repairs though no injuries, a conduct of a internal Jewish community, Perez Trabelsi, told Reuters.
There were no protests in Djerba though locals pronounced a assailants had exploited a fact that there was a reduced confidence participation as military was bustling elsewhere combating anti-government protests around a country.
“Unknown people took a event of a protests and threw Molotov cocktails into a run of a Jewish eremite propagandize in Djerba,” Trabelsi said.
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During a time of a conflict aroused clashes were distracted in some 20 Tunisian cities as people protested opposite rising prices and new taxes imposed by on Jan. 1.
Mainly Muslim Tunisia has a Jewish minority of fewer than 1,800 people. Jews have lived in Tunisia for over 2,000 years and Djerba is home to Africa’s oldest synagogue, El Ghriba, that was strike by al Qaeda-linked militants in 2002 in a lorry explosve conflict that killed 21 people including Western tourists.