Cops clash with Tel Aviv protesters demanding hostage deal; officer assaults ToI reporter for second time in 3 days
The anti-government, pro-hostage deal demonstration on Tel Aviv’s Begin Street ends after a series of clashes between police and protesters.
A group representing people arrested at anti-government demonstrations says at least four protesters were arrested.
The protest eschews speeches for angry chants.
After protesters march toward the southern perimeter of the rally’s allotted area, officers stationed there push them back, yanking a man out of the crowd and tossing him to the ground.
Protesters recede and light a bonfire some 20 meters north of the perimeter.
They chant: “Ben Gvir is a terrorist,” referring to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who is in charge of the police, and “Where were you in Sde Teiman?” referring to the police’s failure to arrest members of a far-right mob that stormed the southern IDF detention facility on July 29 after military police officers detained reservists there of suspicion of having sodomized a Palestinian inmate.
Police announce the protest is a public nuisance and drums and megaphones will be confiscated, despite it being an hour before sound pollution laws kick in.
They begin shoving protesters, violently detaining one after snatching his megaphone, even though he wasn’t using it.
One officer shoves this Times of Israel reporter trying to capture the arrest on video, hits him on the side of the neck and knocks the phone out of his hand.
This is the second time in three days that such an incident has taken place after an officer placed his hand on the throat of another Times of Israel reporter and shoved him backward on Monday.
Protesters demanding a hostages-for-ceasefire deal clash with police as they try to push back the southern perimeter of the area allotted for the demonstration on Tel Aviv's Begin Street. Officers yank one man out of the crowd and throw him to the ground. pic.twitter.com/ccms7S2KEe
— Noam Lehmann (@noamlehmann) September 4, 2024
Police violently detain a protester after snatching his megaphone at the Tel Aviv demonstration to demand a hostages-for-ceasefire deal. pic.twitter.com/MNMQzHpQGV
— Noam Lehmann (@noamlehmann) September 4, 2024
