Hundreds of Arab residents of Jaffa marched in protest Saturday after a pregnant woman from the community was allegedly pepper-sprayed by Jews while she was driving her car in the city’s Ajami neighborhood.

The Israel Police said in a statement that an altercation developed between the woman and several others, who apparently sprayed her and then fled the area in southern Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

Footage published by the Arab48 news site showed protesters marching to the site of the attack while chanting: “Tell the Shin Bet dogs we’re not afraid of conflict,” referring to Israel’s internal security agency.

Speaking to the protesters, former Knesset member and former Tel Aviv-Jaffa council member Sami Abu Shehadeh accused the government of complicity in the attack, which he said included verbal abuse and spitting on the woman, according to Arab48.

“This assault is not an individual incident, but rather a new episode in a systematic policy targeting the people of Jaffa and our Palestinian nation at large,” said Abu Shehadeh, head of the Palestinian nationalist Balad party.

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