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A cyclist who was carrying an Israeli flag has been attacked on a Melbourne shopping and dining strip in a clash fuelled by escalating local Israel-Palestine tensions.
Video obtained by 9News showed a laughing woman chasing after the cyclist on Chapel Street in South Yarra before she tried to remove the flag from his bicycle about 8pm yesterday.
The footage, captured by a witness, shows the man getting off his pushbike and falling over before he is set upon by two men.