Another violent incident took place in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood, this time between local residents and police officers escorting collection officers enforcing a writ of execution.
Five of the attackers were arrested on assault charges.
The event took place on Sunday, when collection agents arrived at the Masrawa family home, in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood, to collect a NIS 3,000 (roughly $770) debt owed to Bank Hapolaim by Salem Masrawa (25).
His mother, Zeliha, answered the door, and explained to the officers that Salem no longer lived there. The officers insisted on executing the writ, and while Salem was being located, the recently widowed woman – after failing to convince the officers to take their business up with her son – offered to pay NIS 2,000, which she claimed were meant for here husband's headstone.
Another of her sons, she told Ynet, "was sent out to somehow get another NIS 1,000."
The officers, she added, quickly lost patience, entered the home and seized a television and a computer – which is when the riot began.
Despite telling the officers the indebted son no longer lived in her house, "more and more policemen came to the house and started taking out things – there were five officers for each one of my children.
"My 12-year-old got slapped in the face, and my 13-year-old, who has a heart condition, was also beaten up."
Once the violence subsided, the police arrested Salem, a pregnant woman, the 13-year-old and two others of his brothers.
"This was nothing but provocation," Zeliha said. "I told the officers that my children had just lost their father, that they were traumatized, that they should go after the son who owes the money. I don't wish this on any mother, to see her children being beat up and then arrested."
Jaffa council member Ahmad Mashrawi slammed the police and called on the district commander to "pull his troops and the Border Guard officers out of Jaffa. The police automatically back up the officers, but in this case, there are too many witnesses, too many people who saw what happened."
The Tel Aviv District Police issued the following statement: "The officers who arrived at the scene to assist in the execution of a collection writ were attacked by the family members, and one of them required medical attention.
"Five family members were arrested following the event, and two were remanded. If the family wants to lodge a compliant they can file one with the Internal Affairs Bureau."
Council member Ahmad Mashrawi responded to that by saying that Jaffa's residents have long since lost their faith in the police's Internal Affairs Bureau.