Israel police filmed using violence against protesters – Israel News

Big protests for hostages And against Shin Bet Head’s shot Ronen bar In Jerusalem and Tel Aviv this week they were marked by intense uses of the police force, including the officers who hit and kill violent protesters and scatters of groups of protesters.

Police He responded to a request for comments, saying that the officers acted within their authority to disperse the protesters, whom they said they were interrupting public order and working to overcome police barricades.

The protests documentation on Wednesday and Thursday shows police officers by throwing protesters to the ground, dragging them to the ground and pushing them to each other.

A Wednesday video shared by Violence Israel, an organization that documes violence in protests, shows a group of police officers surrounding a protester lying on the ground, with one of the officers by pressing his knee on the neck of the man.

A man with blood spilling his face said in a video of the protest on Wednesday night published by Israel violence that the police hit him after calling the officers “criminals with uniforms.”

The Israeli clash with the police during a protest against the decision of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire the head of Shin Bat Ronen Bar, in Jerusalem, March 20, 2025. (Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The police also made use of water cannons and a “Mota” smell sprayer to try to control the crowds, and the protesters say that the use of the injured water cannon at least two.

The head of the Democratic Party, Yair Golan, was thrown to the ground by a police officer in a protest outside the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Aza Street Home on Thursday.

“Don’t worry, I’m fine. After 38 years in the IDF, some blades will not stop me or us,” Golan replied to the incident in X/Twitter on Thursday.

“Now, we keep fighting; do not stop for a moment. We will stop the review. We will bring back to hostages.”

The opposition leader, Yair Lapid, condemned the incident, saying that it could not be that a deputy director of the FDI cabinet and the head of the opposition party was hurt while protested by Israeli democracy. He called the police chief Danny Levi investigating the incident.

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The MK Labor Gilad Kariv was also pushed while protested near the residence of the Prime Minister, since the protesters around him shouted at the officers who were pressing a Knesset member.

In addition, on Wednesday night, the protesters who were blocked near the Plaza de Paris and were not allowed to leave the protest area through the Plaza confronted with the officers who did not use name labels and refused to identify themselves despite the obligation to do so.

The Israel Police did not respond to a request for comments on whether this incident would be treated, and they were told the officers to use name labels and otherwise identify themselves.

Police filmed blows, kicking protesters

The images of a protest on Tuesday night call to put an end to the Israel-Ahamas war showed multiple cases of police protesters and kicking the protesters while trying to make them disperse.

In multiple videos, you can see the police hit their fists to the protesters, kicking them while they lie on the ground and step on protesters.

“The Jeralem police lost my head, they broke my arm while I defended another protester who were hitting in the face,” said a changing direction that talked about the protest on Tuesday night, showing his cast to the camera in a video published in the X account of the organization.

Another protester was hit directly in the groin by an officer who tried to make him move. The man, Max Kresch, told Ynet. “They used extreme violence to silence the protesters.”

Today, a police officer hit me on the balls with a face that covered that his name was removed. What kind of man exceeds another man like that? Police officers brutally beat and kicked non -violent protesters, and those who were not violent enabled them and encouraged him. “

When asked about the footage he showed police officers kicking and hitting the protesters, Israel’s police said the officers “worked within their authority to move the protesters from the way to the sidewalk.”

The Police did not address in their response the question of whether there will be consequences for documented officers who beat the protesters and have not yet answered a monitoring question of whether to hit and kick are part of the author’s authority by disperse the protesters.

When asked if the police will carry out an internal investigation of the documented officers who hit and kick protesters, the police said that “to the extent that there are statements about the behavior of the officers, they are worth examining by the authorized authorities for this.”

Directing the protests in general, the police said that “they will allow each person to freedom to protest within the limits of the law, but will take measures against the offenders of the law and the protesters whose actions damage the public, will endanger their own lives and the safety and well -being of the pedestrians and the police forces that operate in these areas for their benefit.”

Additional violent incidents in protests

There were other violent incidents in the protests of the week, and the most extreme was an alleged onslaught of a protester by a jerusalem taxi driver on Wednesday night.

In a statement on Thursday, the protester said: “I was hit during the mass protest in Jerusalem against war and the abandonment of the hostages. A taxi driver hit me intentionally, dragged me (on) his bumper by dozens of meters of meters while accelerating, and then threw me to the ground, where I lost consciousness while he fled and my law was broken in several places.” “

The protester added that the driver was arrested by the police and then launched on the scene and that, while he was stopped, he shouted at someone who filmed him, asking him if “he wants me to go through it too.”

The protester said he would not give up the protests and would reach the next crutch protests after undergoing surgery.

“I was about to break yesterday, but I decided that at that time I must continue. I have no choice.”

In another incident on Wednesday, a woman drove extremely quickly on a road despite the dozens of protesters walked down the street. She whistled people to enter, and people shouted in the window and hit the side of her car.

There were additional altercations between protesters and people on the street on Wednesday, with protesters and passers -by arguing.

Ariela Ohrenstein contributed to this report.