While exchanges of Palestinian Hamas’ rockets and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have happened before, this week’s deadly warfare has been joined by a new specter: Inter-Israeli violence. In towns where they normally coexist, Jewish and Arab Israelis attacked each other yesterday, leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to grant police emergency powers. “Nothing justifies the lynching of Jews by Arabs and … Arabs by Jews.” The Palestinian death toll from Israeli airstrikes has now reached at least 69, including 16 children, since fighting started Monday, while six Israelis, including a 5-year-old boy, have been killed by more than 1,000 rockets launched from Gaza.

Footage of a far-right Israeli mob attacking a man near Tel Aviv they believed to be an Arab was aired live on Israeli television Wednesday night, as the Israel-Palestinian conflict raged on.  Sources NYT, Aljazeera, France ,24, Haaretz