The Times of Israel records Saturday’s occasions as they occur.
Police issued an official after a police officer was filmed beating two protesters during Saturday night’s anti-Netanyahu demonstration in Jerusalem.
Police said the officer had reported that he had been assaulted, “however, the incident will be verified and investigated.”
He also said: “Despite the efforts and many resources invested through the Israeli police to ensure a safe demonstration and freedom of expression for all, it is transparent that various teams have selected the trace of provocation, adding physical and verbal violence.” opposed to officials whose function is to maintain security and order, adding the protesters themselves.
Police say it is acting to guarantee the right of protest and expression to all citizens in this “complicated period.”
– 22 August 2020 (@kann_news)
Several lawmakers criticize police for their conduct in a tense protest tonight against Prime Minister Netanyahu outdoors from his official jerusalem apartment.
Intelligence Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen of the Kakhol Lavan party is calling for an investigation after a senior official filmed on strike through protesters. According to police, the officer, Chief Superintendent Niso Guetta, attacked through one of the protesters.
“Power is responsibility, anarchy!” she’s tweeting.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid also gave the impression that he was intervening in the incident.
“Protesters at the fairest demonstrations in the country’s history suffer from police violence. This is allowed and we will call for a spark and a decisive investigation into tonight’s events in Jerusalem,” wrote Lapid, who leads the Yesh Atid match on Twitter.
This is Labour MP Merav Michaeli.
“When the police are required to paint for Netanyahu in the public, this error occurs,” he wrote in a tweet that included a video of the incident.
She added: “The role of the police is to maintain the public and the well-being of the public, to be an authority that the public fears. Netanyahu has no public expectations, but he does have expensive cops, if the public despairs you, he will. be very bad.
Hundreds of police officers forcibly dispersed the anti-Netanyahu protesters. Some of them were dragged out of Paris Square and gave the impression of being detained.
Police continue to push the remaining protesters towards Agron Street to drive them away from the square.
This scattering gave the impression of being more violent and more detained than in recent weeks.
– Anat Peled
Dozens of policemen entered Paris and forcibly dispersed the remaining protesters.
Some drag the protesters out of the area, seeming to stop them. Trucks with water cannons are waiting nearby.
– Anat Peled
Thousands of anti-Netanyahu protesters in Jerusalem’s Paris Square, refusing to comply with a police dispersal order.
Police aggressively push protesters who refuse to disperse on Keren Hayessod Street.
Police announce that the demonstration is illegal and that if the protesters leave, they will be “forced to use force.”
Protesters shout “you will not be chief of the national police” in reference to Jerusalem district commander Doron Yadid, who happens to be largely aspiring to office.
– Anat Peled
Jerusalem police told protesters that the demonstration in front of the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem was declared illegal. If the protesters do not disperse, one officer says, they will be deported with “reasonable force.”
Thousands of protesters remain at The Square in Paris, with no intention of leaving.
– Aaron Boxerman
ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE, France – French President Emmanuel Macron promises that every effort will be made to discover who degraded a monument for one of the worst massacres in France during Nazi World War II.
Politicians from all walks of life denounce the desecration of the main sign of the oradour-sur-Glane monument in central France, where 642 more people were massacred on 10 June 1944 through a division of the German SS.
The word “martyr” crossed out on the panel with white paint.
Today a blue blanket is placed on the sign, however, photographs on social media accounts imply that the French word for “liar” has been added along with other slogans claiming to deny that the bloodbath took place.
The inscriptions were discovered in the morning at the opening of the memorial center, its president, Fabrice Escure, told the AFP.
“This is a general scandal,” he said, adding that a legal complaint had already been filed and that traffic cameras could provide evidence.
On 10 June 1944, Nazi forces cordoned off the village after reports that a senior SS commander had been captured through the French resistance.
They cornered all the men of the village in barns, knocked them down, and forced the women and young men into a burning church.
After the war, the leader of the resistance and later President Charles de Gaulle ordered that the village not be rebuilt and that the village be left in ruins as a reminder. A new village built nearby.
The memorial center, now visited by another 300,000 people each year, then built to help visitors.
“Every effort will be made to bring to justice those responsible for this,” Macron said in a statement through the Elyseo Palace, adding that he condemns the “unspeakable” act in the most vehement terms.
The incident comes amid growing fear in France about the reminiscence of World War II, after repeated vandalism attacks in Jewish cemeteries.
– AFP
Police said a filmed superintendent leader of anti-Netanyahu protesters on strike in Jerusalem attacked through one of the protesters, who tried to remove his mask, according to public broadcaster Kan.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomes Hamas Ismail Haniyeh for talks in Istanbul.
Also in the assembly are Hamas No. 2 Saleh al-Arouri, a senior army commander of the Palestinian terrorist organization who has a $5 million bounty for his head, and Turkish intelligence leader Hakan Fidan.
The assembly comes amid intense tensions between Israel and Hamas, which have noticed normal fires and rocket attacks from Gaza, as well as Israeli retaliatory movements in the Gaza Strip.
This comes after Israel and the United Arab Emirates, one of Turkey’s regional rivals, announced an initial agreement to normalize diplomatic relations.
– T.C. Cumhurba-kanl (@tcbestepe) August 22, 2020
Thousands of anti-Netanyahu protesters are in a confrontation with police on King George Street in Jerusalem. Police ordered the protesters to leave, they refuse to do so.
Police say they enforce noise violations and urge the crowd to defend drums and horns.
With nothing to make noise, many protesters began banging on the police’s steel barricade. Police responded by climbing the barricade and violently pushing back the protesters.
Protesters chant “revolution” and “shame” in the ranks of Yassam police on the other side of the barricade.
– Aaron Boxerman
The government will not meet for the weekly cupboard meeting, according to the Hebrew media, allegedly due to the coalition crisis that may lead to new early elections if a budget commitment is not reached until Monday night.
Two weeks ago, the cupboard did not meet for their weekly assembly due to a war of words between Likud and Kakhol on the agenda.
Police said the demonstration in Jerusalem calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now illegal for noise violations.
Police officers on horseback enter the crowd of thousands who remain in Paris Square.
According to police, a policeman was injured by a stone that was thrown at him by the demonstration.
The officer was transferred for medical treatment. A policeman did not specify the severity of the injury.
– Aaron Boxerman
Tonight’s demonstration calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation may be the biggest since the motion took off two months ago.
The Paris Square is full of tens of thousands of protesters, while many others continue to arrive from the surrounding streets.
Hundreds of protesters gather on either side of a police blockade on Keren Hayessod Street, a not-easy permit to enter the city centre. Mounted police deploy in the ranks of Yassam’s insurrection police.
Police, however, got rid of the barricades, allowing protesters to climb the Keren Hayessod.
Police said seven others were arrested in a march from the Bridge of Agreements on the city front to Paris Square, which is next to the prime minister’s residence, for allegedly disrupting public order and assaulting officers.
Police said earlier that they would begin enforcing noise regulations by 9:30 p.m. For the first time in weeks, water cannons are staring at protesters. Police tell protesters they’re violating noise regulations.
“We ask everyone to remain silent,” announces an officer from a truck with water cannons.
Undeterred protesters march with cannons and chant slogans.
– Aaron Boxerman
A video of the outdoor demonstration of the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem shows a policeman violently beating the protesters.
In the short clip, the officer pushes a protester in the face, while the protester appears to succeed in the policeman’s face. The policeman then observes the protester at the moment, hits him in the back of the head and throws him to the ground.
An organization of officials then snuggled up around the protester before taking it away, while rejecting other protesters.
– 22 August 2020 (@kann_news)
More than 10,000 more people are lately taking part in the open-air anti-Netanyahu demonstration of the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem, according to Estimates through Hebrew media.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz says his Kakhol lavan party may be a proposal through Derech MP Zvi Hauser, which would delay Monday night’s deadline to approve a budget, delaying the option of new elections by a hundred days.
The proposed commitment will also cause the parties to form a committee to assess how senior officials are decided and agree to make appointments for the 100-day period.
“From my point of view, this committee will have to be and can be formed, and [should] weigh the way we make appointments; and in any case, we’ll have to reach agreement on this,” Gantz said in a statement. interview with Canal thirteen News.
He says that if elections are called, it will be for Netanyahu’s “personal reasons,” referring to the minister’s corruption charge.
Gantz adds: “Netanyahu will have to ask, “What have I done as Prime Minister so there is no election?” He did not respect the [coalition agreement] clause on the budget. We are able to find solutions. We only need to go back to the agreement, there is no explanation to take us to the election ».
WASHINGTON – Trump’s management will send two high-level countries to the Middle East this week to build on the momentum of the historic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to identify diplomatic relations.
Three diplomats say Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and SENIOR adviser and son-in-law to US President Donald Trump Jared Kushner plan to make separate visits to several countries in the region in the coming days to announce the Arab-Israeli rapprochement following the Israel-U.S. Agreement. .
Pompeo is expected to go to Israel, Bahrain, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Sudan, according to diplomats, who spoke on anonymity because management has not yet been finalized or publicly announced. Kushner plans to depart later in the week for Israel, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, according to diplomats.
None of these trips deserve to result in announcements of rapid progress, diplomats say, either with the goal of finalizing at least one, and potentially more, standardization agreements with Israel in the near future.
Pompeo also plans to meet with Members of the Talban in Qatar to discuss afghan peace talks involving the withdrawal of remaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan, diplomats said.
The White House and the state branch have no comment on planned travel, which will occur when management intensifies its efforts to push for Arab-Israeli normalization, including a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
They also come when management has taken the questionable resolution to provoke the reinstatement of all foreign sanctions opposing Iran, which Israel and the Gulf Arab countries have publicly supported.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on 13 August that they would identify full diplomacy as a component of a US-negotiated agreement that required Israel to end its controversial plan to annex Palestinian-sought-after West Bank occupied lands.
The historic agreement was a key foreign policy victory for Trump as he sought re-election and reflected a conversioned Middle East in which shared considerations about Iran’s arch-enemy far outweighed the classic Arab for Palestinians.
U.S. and Israeli officials have warned that more Arab countries could soon stick to the leadership of the United Arab Emirates, and it was noted that Bahrain and Oman are the closest to concluding such agreements.
Ap
New statistics from the Ministry of Health show that 1140 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Shabbat, bringing the number of infections from the start of the pandemic to 101856.
The ministry reported 10 more deaths, bringing the death toll to 819.
Of the 22,393 active cases, another 398 people are in severe condition, with 119 with insufficient ventilation. Another 177 people are in moderate condition and the rest have mild or nonexistent symptoms.
The ministry says 27,112 tests were conducted yesterday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s party has a tendency for a bill to delay Monday night’s deadline to approve a 100-day state budget, according to the Twelfth Channel, rejecting the option of new elections.
The invoice is part of a commitment introduced through Derech Eretz MK Zvi hauser that will make the Likud agree with the Kakhol component washed on a budget until the end of one hundred days, according to the chain.
The parties also agreed to form a committee to assess how senior officials are elected, the report says. No appointments will be made until the committee has reached its conclusions.
In addition, Likud and Kakhol lavan reportedly agreed to focus on the fight against coronavirus and the influenza pandemic during the winter, as well as possible security threats at the northern and southern borders.
Police arrested a suspect in connection with an alleged group rape of a 16-year-old woman at Eilat’s Red Sea hotel.
It’s time for the suspect’s arrest and the fourth since the investigation began.
“The police will today ask to enlarge the pre-trial detention of one of the minors who was arrested and tomorrow will bring the moment in pre-trial detention (hearing),” said a policeman.
Demonstrators gather at the prime minister’s home in Jerusalem and near Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the coastal city of Caesarea in the face of protests opposing the prime minister tonight.
In Jerusalem, a few hundred protesters began marching from the Bridge of Agreements to the Prime Minister’s residence, even though police refused to grant permission for the march.
There are a lot of police in the community and police have parked water cannons near the city front and near the Supreme Court, according to the Haaretz.
– Josh Breiner (@JoshBreiner) August 22, 2020
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a U.S. delegation to Israel and several Gulf states early next month on the Walla news website.
Kushner will be accompanied by Avi Berkowitz, US President Donald Trump’s peace envoy, the report says. National security adviser Robert O’Brien and Brian Hook, Iran’s pointer to the U.S., are also expected to sign up for the trip.
The announcement to the region follows the standardization agreement negotiated by the United States between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Precautionary sirens in the south were activated through a “failed [rocket] launch” through Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, to the military, indicating that the projectile landed in the strip.
The chimney site of the rockets comes amid increased tension at the border that has noticed normal premeditated fires and the chimney site of rockets from Gaza, as well as Israel’s nightly retaliation in the Hamas-led enclave.
Arson devices introduced from Gaza from Gaza have triggered 35 fires in the south of the country, according to public broadcaster Kan.
NEW YORK – The world is now taking a dark step towards the coronavirus with 800,000 deaths shown and nearly 23 million cases shown.
That’s according to a Johns Hopkins University account. Governments have tried to balance public fitness with economic fitness.
Officials that genuine numbers are much higher due to lack of evidence and reporting. In the United States, the country with the highest infections, fitness officials estimate that there may be only 10 times as many cases than the confirmed 5.6 million. The United States also leads the world in terms of deaths, with more than 175,000 people.
The news comes when South Korea, once regarded as a history of good fortune of the coronavirus, forbids giant gatherings, closes nightclubs and churches, and prohibits professional sports enthusiasts from curbing viral resurgence. Germany, which also first slowed down the virus, now reports a peak of more than 2,000 cases in 4 months. Schools reopened two weeks ago, and at least 41 schools reported this week that students or teachers were infected.
In the United States, schools have begun to reopen, with coronavirus outbreaks causing closures, quarantines, and anxiety among parents.
Ap
Rocket warning sirens sound on the border of Gaza, the city of Sderot and near the city of Ibim.
The IDF says that’s the problem.
Demonstrators are about to gather in Jerusalem and tonight they oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu as part of the ongoing protests over the prime minister’s indictment for corruption and control of the coronavirus pandemic.
As in recent weeks, the protest will be in the Prime Minister’s apartment in Jerusalem. Smaller demonstrations are also expected in front of Netanyahu’s personal home in the coastal city of Caesarea, as well as on roads, intersections and viaducts across the country.
In Jerusalem, protesters attempted to march from the agreement bridge at the front to the paris Square in front of the minister’s residence, but police refused to approve the march, saying it would interfere with the residents’ traffic and habits. Police proposed several alternatives, but they were rejected.
“We will not let them suppress the protests. We’ll walk with you or without you. Their role is to protect us, our role is to protect a country that is collapsing,” the organizers said of the occasion in a quote through Walla. news website.
In the run-up to the imaginable new elections, Meretz MEP Tamar Zandberg is asking the Kakhol Lavan party to abandon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and form an election government, saying there is a majority in the Knesset to do so.
“The center-left block has a majority [of] 61 in the existing Knesset. All he wants to do is have Kakhol lavan vote on Monday in favor of constructive mistrust [vote] … and there’s a government that approves a budget and be to deal with citizenship and not with itself, without election or racism,” she wrote on Twitter.
Despite Zandberg’s assertion, there does not appear to be a majority in the Knesset for this decision, as Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel and mp Zvi Hauser of Kakhol Lavan’s Derech Eretz faction, which would be necessary, have ruled in the past with the Arabs. majority party to form a government without Netanyahu.
Israel warns of an ecological crisis in southern Israel as wastewater from the Gaza Strip crosses the border.
Officials allege that today’s flight is an act planned through Palestinians in the Hamas-led gang.
“In recent days, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have threatened that if there is no fuel for wastewater turbines in the strip, they will close and everything will pass to Israel. Apparently, they went through the threat,” one official said, according to Ynet’s news website.
Residents of southern Israel, near the northern component of Gaza, report a strong smell of sewage.
Israeli officials are concerned that if Gaza’s sewerage facilities resume operations, the scenario will worsen more and thousands of cubic metres of additional wastewater will flood the region.
The wastewater treatment plant that stopped operating treats the wastewater of the Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun communities in Gaza in northern Gaza. After operations stopped, sewage was redirected to the Hanoun Riverbed, which crosses the border and connects to the Shikma River in southern Israel.
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish air and naval forces are conducting joint training in the Aegean Sea, the country’s Defense Ministry said amid tensions with neighboring Greece over oil discoveries.
F-16 fighter jets participated together with warships to “strengthen, maintain and operationally operationally operate joint operations between forces,” the ministry tweeted.
The announcement came when NATO members, Turkey and Greece, face off in the Mediterranean for oil and fuel exploration and a day after Turkey declared primary fuel discoveries in the Black Sea.
Two weeks ago, Turkey sent a study ship escorted through a warship to conduct surveys in waters where Greece claims exclusive rights on the underlying seabed. Athens responded by sending its own warships to the region and putting its army on alert. France has also sent warships and planes to join training with Greek forces.
Greek officials said the United Arab Emirates will also send fighter jets to the island of Crete in southern Greece for joint education next week.
Relations between Greece and Turkey have been strained. The two have reached the breaking point of the war three times since the mid-1970s, once adding the rights to explore to drill in the Aegean Sea separating the two countries.
France’s relations with Turkey are strained by Ankara’s involvement in Libya’s civil war. The United Arab Emirates is a staunch rival of Turkey in a broader struggle for political Islam, while Abu Dhabi and Ankara are rival factions in Libya.
Ap
Police issued an official after a police officer was filmed beating two protesters during Saturday night’s anti-Netanyahu demonstration in Jerusalem.
Police said the officer had reported that he had been assaulted, “however, the incident will be verified and investigated.”
He also said: “Despite the efforts and many resources invested through the Israeli police to ensure a safe demonstration and freedom of expression for all, it is transparent that various teams have selected the trace of provocation, adding physical and verbal violence.” opposed to officials whose function is to maintain security and order, adding the protesters themselves.
Police say it is acting to guarantee the right of protest and expression to all citizens in this “complicated period.”
– 22 August 2020 (@kann_news)