A Syrian migrant has reportedly bitten off part of an Israeli tourist’s ear in Athens, shouting ‘Free Palestine.’
The alleged victim of the attack, Stav Ben Shoshan, was with his wife at a local beach when assaulted by a group of Syrian migrants. He lost part of his ear to a man shouting “I am Hamas!” who overheard the couple talking to two elderly Israelis in Hebrew.
A representative of Israel’s foreign ministry told journalists that the “attacker is under arrest. We are in contact with him and with the authorities.”
Migrants shouting “To hell with Israel” fit in with a pattern of antisemitic violence seen in Europe this summer. Earlier in July, a group of Israeli teenagers were attacked outside a nightclub in Rhodes, Cyprus.
