Police arrested an ultra-Orthodox Jew accused of stabbing and wounding six people on Thursday in a gay pride march in Jerusalem — two of them seriously.
Officers identified the assailant as Yishai Schlissel, recently released from prison after serving 10 years for stabbing participants in a similar gay parade in Jerusalem.
Mr Schlissel is said to have pulled a knife from his jacket and run after the young marchers as they walked through streets decorated with rainbow flags, leaving bleeding victims on the ground before he was pinned down by police.
Two marchers who had been stabbed in the chest were reported to be in serious condition.
In recent public statements, Mr Schlissel made no secret of his hostility to the gay pride marchers — raising questions over whether police had been adequately prepared to secure the parade.
The annual gay pride march in Jerusalem has raised strong objections from ultra-Orthodox Jews and is held under heavy security.
Ultra-Orthodox protesters have denounced what they call the defiling of the holy city, dubbing the march “the parade of abomination”.
Mr Schlissel received a 12-year sentence for stabbing three people in a gay pride march in Jerusalem in 2005, but his sentence was reduced by two years. Israeli media said he had been released three weeks ago.
A large gay pride parade is held annually in Tel Aviv, and Israeli officials often tout their country’s tolerance toward gays and lesbians as a sign of Israeli democracy in a region characterised by authoritarian rule.
“Individual freedom of choice is one of the basic values of Israel,” Benjamin Netanayahu, the prime minister, said in a statement denouncing the attack. “We must ensure that in Israel every man and woman will live in security in any way they choose.”
警方拘捕了一位被控在周四耶路撒冷同性戀遊行中刺傷6人的極正直統派猶太人，個中2人傷勢緊張。
警方確認行兇者名為伊沙伊奇利賽爾(Yishai Schlissel)，曾因在耶路撒冷一場相似的同性戀遊行中刺傷遊行介入者被判10年徒刑，比來被開釋。
聽說，在遊行人群穿過用彩虹旗號裝潢的街道時，他從上衣取出一把刀，追逐年青的遊行者，受傷的遊行者倒在地上，他隨後被警方摁倒。
據報導，兩名遊行者胸部被刺，傷勢緊張。
在比來的公然聲明中，奇利賽爾絕不掩蓋他對同性戀遊行者的敵意，這讓外界對警方是不是為確保這次遊行做出了充足的預備發生疑惑。
耶路撒冷一年一度的同性戀遊行一向受到極正直統派猶太人的猛烈否決，每一年都是在周密安保辦法下舉辦。
超等正統派抗議者對他們所說的這類對這個神聖都會的輕瀆行動予以訓斥，他們把這場遊行稱為“使人仇恨的遊行”。
奇利賽爾曾在2005年耶路撒冷的一次同性戀遊行中刺傷3人被判12年羈系，厥後弛刑兩年。以色列媒體稱，他是3周前被開釋的。
特拉維夫每一年舉辦大型同性戀遊行，在這個以威權統治為特點的地域，以色列官員常常誇獎本身的國度對同性戀的寬容，並把這視為以色列民主的意味。
“小我選取自由因此色列的根本代價觀之一，”以色列總理本雅明蔠呑尼亞胡(Benjamin Netanyahu)在一份訓斥這次打擊事宜的聲明中表現，“咱們必需確保，在以色列，無論選取甚麽，全部人都將生存在平安情況中。”
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