Police arrested 24 protesters at a small anti-war demonstration in Haifa’s German Colony this evening, law enforcement says.
Officers were filmed attempting to disperse the demonstrators while tearing up signs only a few minutes after the protest began.
Later on, officers started tackling protesters to the ground, handcuffing them and carrying them to a police van.
Police describe the 24 detained protesters as rioters, saying they “did not respond to officers’ orders, held up signs and chanted slogans against Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza.”
In a video from the site of the protest, one handcuffed demonstrator shouts to reporters that officers had beaten several female protesters inside the van, before she herself is pushed into a police car.
The protest is one of several anti-war demonstrations organized by Haifa’s Arab residents amid the ongoing fighting in Gaza, which often sees mass arrests. A small number of left-wing Jewish Israelis also attend these demonstrations, which typically amount to a few dozen participants.
In April this year, police forcefully arrested 23 demonstrators at a similar protest in the same spot, tearing paper signs from participants’ hands as they chanted against the war.
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