Israeli mounted police officers disperse demonstrators in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Police use water cannons in an attempt to disperse protesters against the judicial overhaul in central Tel Aviv.
It is the first time in a number of weeks that water cannons have been used in Tel Aviv for any purpose other than clearing protesters from the Ayalon highway.
At the same time, police begin to physically move the protesters at the Kaplan interchange.
There are also mounted police operating in the densely packed crowd.
The crowd chants: “Shame!”
An injured protester at anti-overhaul demonstration in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2023 (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
A woman was injured earlier on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway when she was hit in the head by a water cannon.
Earlier this week, a number of senior physicians asked police to stop using water cannons as a crowd dispersal technique after a number of protesters were seriously wounded.
The letter characterized water cannons as “weapons” that cause “exceptional and serious” damage by spraying water at high pressure.
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