Fresh violence erupted Thursday evening in several Jewish-Arab cities, a night after some of the worst internal unrest in years, as intense fighting also continued between Israel and Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip.
Two civilians and a policeman were reported to have been shot by Arab assailants in Lod and Ramle.
In Lod, a central city with Jewish and Arab populations that has become an epicenter of the ethnic violence gripping the country, a Jewish paramedic was lightly wounded after being shot. Reports later said a second Jewish man was shot in the city, after an overnight curfew took effect at 8 p.m. for a second night in a row.
Arab rioters also torched a synagogue, the fifth in the city to be set alight in the recent violence, according to Channel 12 news.
Kan news posted video from the city of what it said were armed citizens accompanying officers to the site of clashes.
Along with the curfew, which ends at 3 a.m., police began barring non-residents of Lod from entering the city as of 5 p.m.
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