The protesters, many of them in disguise, carried Israeli flags and banners calling for Netanyahu’s expulsion for a series of corruption in which he is charged.
Protesters also wore giant pink and black submarines, in reference to a scandal of corruption from mass sources. Several of Netanyahu’s affiliates have been named in the so-called underwater case, however, the prime minister himself has never been a suspect in the case. several attempts at submarines, leading to other small fights.
“Protesters pay no attention to police forces. Some of them are fighting with the police,” said one policeman.
Clashes were also reported between police and members of bratslav’s Hasidic sect, who protested against government attempts to restrict their annual pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic. A video showed police and protesters fighting on King George Street in central Jerusalem. , several blocks from the main protest site.
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Officers arrested feature-based cartoonist and artist Zeev Engelmayer, who showed up in a costume as his character Shoshka.
Police said in a statement that they had arrested a guy who had arrived at the occasion place dressed in a way that could constitute sexual harassment of the public.
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Engelmayer, in his character, was an inescapable detail in beyond events, and it was not known without delay why he was in detention. Prime Minister Sara Netanyahu’s wife has complained that she feels “sexually abused” through obscene posters. and posters of the protests.
At a post-protest press convention, an Israeli police spokesman denied seeing Engelmayer at the protests before.
Engelmayer, who was released later that night, was forced by suspected police officers to undress so that he could ask for an interrogation. Israeli police did not respond without delay to a request for comment on the charge.
Shortly after midnight, police dispersed all the protesters from Paris Square, pushed them onto the sidewalk and slowly forced them down Agron Street.
Twelve other people were arrested during the demonstration, Jerusalem police commander Amir Barazani said at a press conference.
There were also protests in Caesarea, where some 500 more people accumulated in a square in front of Netanyahu’s personal home, and people also accumulated in some three hundred higher steps across the country, according to the Ynet news website.
Protesters in Hadera reported that they located the windows of their wrecks after returning from an overpass.