There are so many reasons why we can paint together,” he said, adding that he was sure of the protests after Saturday night’s turnout.” The more people come, the more they must stick to them.”
Jerusalem police allowed protesters to remain until midnight, but it was not easy for protesters to disperse around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, forcibly expelling those who refused to go out amid chants of “non-violence” and “shame.”
The square was cleared at 1:30 a.m., and three other people were arrested for “disrupting public order and assaulting officers,” according to police. A Haaretz photographer also briefly stopped despite his references in the press. A police spokesman accused the photographer of being attacked by an officer.
Another demonstration held near Netanyahu’s personal home in the coastal city of Caesarea, with estimates of up to 1,000 participants.
Before the rallies, smaller demonstrations were held on bridges and viaducts across the country.
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As in recent weeks, Netanyahu and his Likud have criticized Channel 12, Israel’s main broadcaster, for covering the protests.
“Around the world, the media and countries are acting for citizens, while our reporters and analysts are mobilizing for the ‘twelfth channel of demonstration’ in favor of left-wing unrest that opposes the government fighting for the lives and livelihoods of The citizens of Israel,” Likud said in a statement via Netanyahu on social media.
“Possibly it wouldn’t help them. We will continue to paint for you and win.”
At a demonstration on the Red Sea coast in the city of Eilat, protesters said a passing vehicle sprayed tear fuel. Police at the rally were also hit by fuel, Walla’s online news page reported. Police said they were investigating the incident.
“This incident is direct from the incitement of defendant Netanyahu,” the organizers of the demonstration said in a statement.
Early Saturday, protesters filed a complaint against police opposing Yona Avrushmi, the killer of left-wing activist Emil Grunzweig, after he called them “germs” in a television interview and warned them that counter-demonstrators “know exactly what to do” with them.
The complaint filed through a member of the Crime Ministers Group, one of the three main teams organizing the protests opposed to Netanyahu. The organization also sent an urgent letter to acting police commissioner Motti Cohen urging Avrushmi to be arrested immediately.
Avrushmi, who in 1983 threw a hand grenade at a left-wing rally, killing Grunzweig and injuring nine others, plus former Labour Party Minister Avraham Burg and Likud Minister Yuval Steinitz, told a Twelfth Channel interviewer in a clip posted on Friday that the protesters are “The germs, there’s no argument in there… spread diseases and will have to stay out of society.”
Calling them “the wicked” and “those who hate Israel,” he said, “I hate them and they hate me.”
Avrushmi, who lives in Tel Aviv, said he didn’t aim to “go to Balfour” to see the protests that opposed Netanyahu, but “other young people go there and know what to do, they know exactly what to do.” “
Avrushmi was sentenced to life in prison for the murder and served 27 years before his release in 2011. During the police interrogation after the murder, Avrushmi allegedly told the police that the pacifist activists protesting at the time were “germs that will have to be eliminated.” Array»
The crime ministers’ organization demanded that Avrushmi be arrested for “sending a transparent message of deterrence and 0 tolerance to the young people it encouraged.” The organization also criticized Channel 12 for broadcasting the interview.
Netanyahu and his supporters strongly condemned the protesters, calling them “anarchists” and accusing them of alleged incitement against the minister and his family. He also protested by opposing the media policy of the protests, which he said disproportionately.
In his statement, the organization of crime ministers said it was transparent for Avrushmi to admire Netanyahu and warned that the prime minister’s serious comments were echoed through the murderous convict.
The group’s call borrows from a slogan about the development of anti-Netanyahu demonstrations and refers to its legal problems. The Prime Minister is being tried for a series of cases in which he allegedly earned generous gifts from billionaire friends and exchanged regulatory favors with media tycoons for a policy more favorable to him and his family. He denied wrongdoing and accused the media and law enforcement of a witch hunt to expel him from office.
Along with protests calling on the prime minister to resign on his corruption charges, demonstrators who opposed the government’s economic policies against the coronavirus pandemic joined the demonstrations, and crowds increased by the thousands.
The more limited protests calling on Netanyahu to resign took position outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem apartment on Thursday and Friday night.
In recent weeks, violence has perpetrated through Netanyahu’s right-wing supporters. Demonstrators also accused police of using excessive force in the protests.
According to Channel 12, a pro-Netanyahu activist attacked an open-air protester at the prime minister’s apartment on Friday and a few others posted and then deleted a clip on Facebook that said the wary parties to the protests bring weapons to the rallies.
On Thursday, police told the High Court of Justice that they believed they rejected a petition to oppose protests by dozens of citizens in Jerusalem’s Rehavia and Talbieh neighborhoods, who are raging because of weekly protests near their homes.
On the demonstrators’ side, police told the court that any restrictions on demonstrations, which take place several times a week, would undermine freedom of demonstration.
Police said they would place a limit on the number of participants or move the protests elsewhere. The force also rejected a call to limit meetings due to physical fitness considerations amid the coronavirus pandemic.