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Police use water cannonד on protesters during a rally over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
People protest over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
People protest over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
People protest over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
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Police arrest two teenagers on suspicion of throwing rocks at protesters demonstrating against Prime Minister Netanyahu in the northern community of Yavne’el.
The 14- and 15-year-old were arrested after police received a report that rocks were thrown toward protesters, injuring one of them.
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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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Commander Shimon Marciano stands next to the young boy he shoved towards a wall during an ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem on October 4, 2020 (Screenshot: Twitter)
A senior police officer was charged with assault on Thursday for attacking two people at an ultra-Orthodox demonstration in Jerusalem after footage emerged of him violently shoving and smacking a boy and another protester documenting the event.
The police officer grabbed the 12-year-old, shoved him angrily to the ground, slapped him, then pushed another man who documented the incident, video footage taken at the scene showed.
“I didn’t do anything,” the boy is heard calling out in the video, after he is thrown to the ground by the officer.
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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.