In Jerusalem, the latest protest calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation has dispersed. Paris Square has opened for traffic.
In a statement to journalists after the dispersal, senior Jerusalem police official Alon Halfon says that “a number of arrests” were made tonight, without specifying further.
Asked why police had allowed a number of marches to take place throughout the city, including one which gathered on Jerusalem’s light-rail tracks by Jaffa Center station, Halfon says that it was done after “consideration by police” not to confront demonstrators unnecessarily.
Police have previously sought to disperse such marches with riot police, mounted police and water cannons.
Halfon says he does not have any information on two reported incidents of violence against demonstrators — eggs and glass bottles hurled at protests near Mahane Yehuda Market as they marched through.
— Aaron Boxerman
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