Officer puts hand on throat of ToI reporter as police use considerable force at Jerusalem hostage protest

Police are using considerable violence at the hostage protest outside the prime minister’s home in Jerusalem, with one cop putting a hand on the throat of a Times of Israel reporter, squeezing, and driving the reporter back some 30 meters (nearly 100 feet), despite the fact that he identified himself as press.

Police are pushing back protesters violently up Azza Street away from Benjamin Netanyahu’s home, randomly throwing to the ground demonstrators in their way. Many are dragged away by police. One protester is evacuated bleeding from the forehead by medical personnel.

Protesting for a hostage-ceasefire deal after the bodies of six hostages executed in Gaza were recovered last week, the demonstrators chant, “May their memory be a revolution.”

עם קבלת פקודה, ככל הנראה, שוטרים שניצבו מול מפגינים החלו לדחוף ולמעוך באלימות

רחוב עזה, ירושלים 02/09/24

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— אלימות ישראל (@Alimut_Israel) September 2, 2024