Sandak’s death has ignited nine days of near-nightly protest in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Demonstrators have thrown stones, attacked buses and blocked major thoroughfares. In turn, police have responded forcefully, with a video showing a cop shoving a protester into the street, with the young man nearly being hit by a moving vehicle.
עימותים בהפגנה בירושלים: שוטר דחף נער שניסה להפריע לו לתשאל מפגין, הנער כמעט נפגע מרכב שחלף במקום@VeredPelmanpic.twitter.com/0RsZLh7Njv
As of Friday morning, some 295 arrests had taken place at the demonstrations, according to statements released by police. No clear number has been given for people charged with violence at the rallies.
Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed when his car flipped over while being chased by police in the West Bank on December 21, 2020. (Courtesy)
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Police officers are seen during a protest in the northern city of Safed on December 22, 2020, following the death of Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed when his car flipped over while being chased by police in the West Bank. (David Cohen/Flash90)
Police are probing negligent homicide suspicions against four friends of a teenage settler who died in a car crash while fleeing police, after allegedly throwing rocks at Palestinians in the West Bank, Hebrew media outlets reported Monday.
The four so-called hilltop youth, who were in the car with 16-year-old Ahuvia Sandak at the time of last week’s crash, had earlier been questioned on the lesser suspicion of manslaughter.
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Police officers clash with demonstrators during a protest following the death of Ahuvia Sandak during a police chase, outside the police headquarters in Jerusalem, December 26, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Hundreds of right-wing protesters clashed with cops in Jerusalem Saturday evening, over the death of a young settler in a car crash while fleeing police after allegedly throwing stones at Palestinians. Eleven policemen were injured, and two toddlers were hit by water from a police cannon.
Protests have been held nightly in Jerusalem and elsewhere since the death on Monday of 16-year-old Ahuvia Sandak in the central West Bank.
The demonstrators rioted outside the national police headquarters, blocking roads and the light rail tracks, according to a police statement, which said protesters also hurled rocks at officers, 11 of whom were injured.
The vehicle belonging to the so-called hilltop youth flipped over near the Michmash Junction in the West Bank, killing Sandak and injuring four others. The suspected stone-throwers were apprehended and taken to Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem with light to moderate injuries. Sandak was from the southern West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin.
Police said following the accident that officers signaled for the vehicle to halt after catching the young men hurling rocks at passing Palestinian vehicles. The suspects refused and sought to flee the scene, then lost control of their vehicle, which rolled over on the side of the road.
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The director of the Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Ronni Gamzu, formerly the country’s coronavirus czar, says his hospital will begin vaccinating the general population against COVID-19 from Sunday, according to the Ynet news site.
Israel is currently only vaccinating those over 60.
Gamzu says the hospital aims to inoculate 4,000 people a day against the virus. Registration will open on the hospital website on Thursday, he says. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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