Police using water cannons, mounted officers to disperse protesters

Police use water cannon to try to stop protesters near the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023 (Carrie Keller Lynn/Times of Israel)
Police use water cannon to try to stop protesters near the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023 (Carrie Keller Lynn/Times of Israel)

Police bring in water cannons and spray protesters on Kaplan Street who were trying to block the Ayalon highway.

Several protesters appear hurt, one hit in the eye by the jet of water.

Mounted police are also rushing protesters.

The crowd chants “Who are you guarding?” and “shame” as mounted police officers move into a crowd of protesters at the entrance to the Ayalon highway at the HaShalom interchange.

The crowd is increasingly angered as the water cannon is deployed again and again, sometimes with foam and other times with water. Mounted police are riding through the crowd. A number of protesters are dragged off by police as they try to stop the progress of the water cannon.

Protesters surround the water canon, cheering “democracy.” Mounted officers rush the crowd and force people back.

The spray is so forceful it destroys a traffic light.

Police are apparently trying to prevent the crowd from reaching the demonstrators who entered the thoroughfare further north at the Rokah junction, shutting down the highway.

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