A Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at, and pelted with objects by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister.

The police were investigating the attack in Crown Heights, where hundreds of pro-Israel demonstrators surrounded a woman and hurled slurs at her. More protests were expected on Monday.

LONDON -- Israel’s humanitarian aid obligations in Gaza and its ban on UNRWA, the United Nations agency that provides civil and medical services to Palestinian refugees, are under examination in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a week of hearings began on Monday.

The United Nations had asked the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on Israel’s obligations to facilitate aid under international law.

Israel’s foreign minister said Monday that the top U.N. court’s hearing on humanitarian aid to Gaza was part of a “systematic persecution and delegitimization” of his country. In a live briefing, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the court was “becoming completely politicized.