(Transcript from World News Radio)
In Israel, riot police have fired stun grenades and water cannon in an attempt to clear a violent protest in Tel Aviv.
Several thousand Ethiopian-Israelis and their supporters were demonstrating against what they said was police racism and brutality.
Lisa Upton reports.
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A night of violence in Tel Aviv paralyzed the heart of the city.
Israeli Jews of Ethiopian descent hurled stones, overturned a police vehicle and clashed with officers.
Police responded with stun grenades and water cannon.
At least 20 police officers were hurt and 26 people were arrested.
Ben Hartman is a reporter with the Jerusalem Post and was at the protest.
"This is a violent protest the likes of which people in Tel Aviv have not seen before and it's dealing with an issue Israelis are somehwat familiar with but the wider Israeli society is not intimately aware of and that is the racism or specifically the violence from police than Ethiopian Israelis say they suffer from and for years have spoken about."
The protest began peacefully, with the Ethiopian-Israelis joined by sympathisers.
Among them was Dr Gadi BenEzer, a professor of anthropology who has written a book about the thousands of Ethiopian Jews who left their homes between 1977 and 1985 and moved to Israel.
"Discrimination of Ethiopians is going on everywhere and you have to stop it for our sake not for the Ethiopian people's sake alone. It's us, it's not them."
The trigger for the anger now spilling onto Israel's streets came just over a week after a video emerged showing two policemen beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier.
Fentahun Assefa-Dawit is the Executive Director of Tebeka - a group of that advocates for equality and justice for Ethiopian-Israelis.
He also participated in the latest protest.
Mr Assefa-Dawit says the violence witnessed on the video is not an isolated incident.
"All of these people you see, many of them, have gone through this kind of police violence against them."
Ethiopian Jews make up about two percent of the country's population.
Tens-of-thousands were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel in secret operations in the 1980s and 1990s.
But they've long complained of unfair treatment - lower incomes and limited educational opportunities, as Ben Hartman from the Jerusalem Post explains.
"It's not so much that the issue is just police brutality. It's a whole wide range of social issues and a whole larger failure to integrate the Ethiopian community since they began to immigrate in the early 1980s."
The latest wave of anger has drawn comparisons with the riots that erupted in Baltimore last month over police brutality against African-Americans.
Those comparisons have stung Israel's leaders - who want to defuse the tensions.
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