Topless women protest against police near PM’s residence

A number of women remove their shirts at an anti-Netanyahu protest near the prime minister’s residence.

The demonstrators hold signs with slogans including “Justice for Iyad,” in reference to Iyad Halak, an autistic Palestinian man killed by police in Jerusalem in late May, and “[breasts] photograph better than.”

One of the women tells Channel 12 that footage of the shooting has not been released, but “exposed breasts in public have been documented and viewed in every place possible,” apparently referring to a protester who raised a firestorm by removing her shirt on Tuesday while on a menorah statue near the Knesset.

Some of the women have the words “occupation,” in English, and “police violence,” in Hebrew, written on their chests.

Netanyahu at a press conference held during the protest says to protesters, also apparently referring to the topless woman at Tuesday’s protest, “don’t degrade the symbols of the state.”

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