Roy Gross, a 28-year-old Israeli-American, recently suffered a compound fracture in his leg in Laguna Beach, Calif., when an assailant who learned he was Israeli tried to run him and his friend over with a car.
Gross is a resident of Huntington Beach, Hebrew said. article in hebrew news Citing local police reports. According to the article, Gross and his friends were waiting for a taxi outside the club at 2 a.m. when two other men approached them and asked their nationality.
After Gross said he was Israeli, one of the suspects, who claimed to be Palestinian and Iranian, began yelling profanities.
Gross said she and her friends tried to get into a taxi, but the suspected attackers chased them away. One of the assailants then allegedly drove his car toward Mr. Gross and his friends three times, hitting one of the friends and breaking Mr. Gross' leg on the third attempt. There is.
Mr. Gross came to the United States after completing his military service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and is currently working as a music producer. According to of new york postfrom the hospital, said they tried to calm the situation before being attacked.
Police arrested one of the suspects and one of Gross' friends. They released the latter and are reportedly investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Last November, a 69-year-old Jewish man died after being pushed to the ground by pro-Palestinian demonstrators during a pro-Israel counter-demonstration at a rally near Los Angeles, hitting his head.
His assailant was later charged with manslaughter.
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