An Israeli tourist said a man bit off part of his ear on an Athens beach on Saturday after yelling, “Free Palestine, fuck Israel, I am Hamas.”

Stav Ben-Shushan, who was hospitalized, told Hebrew media that he had shoved the man amid the altercation, which he said was sparked when the man approached him and other Israelis and threw sand at them.

Ben-Shushan later indicated, according to Hebrew media, that he was questioned by Greek police after being accused of making racist comments and claimed both he and his attacker were arrested.

The altercation was one of a few alleged anti-Israel incidents across Greece, and Europe more broadly, in recent days.

Speaking to Channel 12 from a hospital in Greece, Ben-Shushan said he and his wife were at Bolivar Beach on the Athenian Riviera, chatting with another Israeli couple, when a man started filming them and chanting the anti-Israel slogans.

Ben-Shushan told Hebrew media that the group initially ignored the disturbance, but then the man threw sand at the Israeli next to them.

Ben-Shushan said he started shoving the attacker before security guards intervened to separate them, removing the assailant from the beach.

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