Ethiopian Israeli demonstrators in Tel Aviv blocked a major highway and other main intersections on roads around the country, protesting systematic discrimination by police after an officer shot and killed 18-year-old Solomon Teka
A masked Israeli member of the Ethiopian community runs past a burning barrier blocking the main entrance to Jerusalem on July 02, 2019
The protesters, led by activists from the country's Ethiopian minority, demonstrated against systematic discrimination by police toward the community after an off-duty officer shot and killed Solomon Teka, an 18-year-old Ethiopian Israeli, in a Haifa suburb on Sunday. "I hope that he will be the last victim," David Teka, Solomon's father, said at the funeral. "We demand that the murderer receive what he deserves and justice is done."
While some of its members have made strides in certain fields, many Ethiopian Israelis struggle with racism, lack of opportunities, endemic poverty and routine police harassment.
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