The Association for LGBTQ+ Equality in Israel has released its annual report, which found an LGBTQ+ person was attacked every three hours in 2020.
As cited by The Jerusalem Post, the research found 2,696 anti-LGBTQ+ attacks were reported in 2020, compared to 2,125 reported incidents in 2019, which makes a 27% increase.
It warned that the pandemic has resulted in an increased amount of hostility within the home of LGBTQ+ citizens: “LGBTQ-phobia does not disappear or diminish, but takes on a different form and adapts itself to the new reality to which we have become accustomed in the past year.”28% of incidents reported in 2020 took place among family, and 25% of attacks occurred near the victim’s own home.