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Police open Ayalon highway in one direction after more than 2.5 hours
Police use water cannon to disperse Israelis protesting against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A large police force, including mounted police, water cannons and Border Police officers, manages to clear Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway of demonstrators after they shut the major highways for more than two hours.
However, after five minutes demonstrators return to the road and block the highway’s southbound lanes.
Northbound traffic remains open.
Police drag dozens of protesters off the road, detaining several of them.
Police officers detain an Israeli protester against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
“Before we were patient, now less so,” a senior officer tells Channel 12 ahead of the effort to clear the Ayalon.
