Police probing officer who rode horse into protester last night
Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Natalie Zangauker, center, sister of hostage Matan Zangauker, is tended to by other protesters for a hostage deal after she was pushed on the road by mounted police and injured on Begin Road in Tel Aviv, August 31, 2024. (Zohar Bar-Yehuda/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
The Department for Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) is examining an incident last night in which a mounted police officer rode his horse into a protester demonstrating at a hostage-release protest in Tel Aviv.
The protester, Natalie Zangauker, who is the sister of hostage Matan Zangauker, was injured when the police officer rode his horse into her back. Video footage of the incident shows her falling to the ground and then being hit in the head by the horse’s hind hoof.
She was taken to Ichilov Hospital for treatment.
