JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In yet another demonstration against the sale of phones with internet access in the Geula neighborhood, clashes broke about between protesters, many of whom were children, and police.
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A police statement blamed “extremists” for the violence and said officers tried to allow for a peaceful protest “but at a certain stage the demonstrators began to riot” and attempted to damage the shop. Police claimed that the children present at the demonstration were “cynically used on the front line” by their parents as well as interfering with traffic and throwing objects at passing buses.
Officers were working to clear the protesters, who police said threw a plastic bottle and hurled invective toward officers after being ordered to disperse.
“The Israel Police will continue to allow freedom of protest within the limits of the law, but will not allow vandalism, violent rioting or any attempt to harm business owners, citizens or officers,” the police statement said.
עימותים, דחיפות וחסימות כבישים: שוב הפרות סדר בשכונת גאולה בירושלים במהלך הפגנה מול חנות סלולר@SuleimanMas1
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The protest was the latest in a series of protests held adjacent to cellphone stores in Geula in an attempt to prevent the owners from selling more advanced phones to local customers.
After a similar protest on Sunday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, whose authority extends to the police, instructed Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai to investigate videos that appeared to show protesters being manhandled.
Ben Gvir has pressed police on what he claims is a double standard regarding how left-wing protesters in Tel Aviv are treated versus chareidi demonstrators in Jerusalem.
A senior police official denied any double standard, telling Channel 12 news that police in Jerusalem sometimes use more heavy-handed tactics due to the more combative nature of protests there as opposed to Tel Aviv, where organizers normally come to an agreement with police on blocking roads for a short period before dispersing. Massive anti-government protests on Saturday night passed without any major incidents.
Bringing children to a protest/riot is grounds for social services to remove the kids from the home (& they should place them on the most Chiloni Kibbutz in Israel.)
Seems like the police need to discipline these kids.
Treat these people the same way you treat any other terrorist. Perhaps they too, should have their homes razed. At the very least, their entitlements should be cut off, as well as the entitlements of those “rabonim”(and I use the term loosely) that are instigating this. This has nothing to do with being kosher or non-kosher. This is a big shakedown being perpetrated by grifters that are afraid of losing control of their mindless minions .
Why aren’t the leaders of this group
That are sending them out arrested Fear These are anti isreal thugs living there and accepting they’re monies
leeches with too much time on their hands
Funny how when we call these hooligans vermin we get all kinds of attacks on this site. Did you guys ever notice the vermin call the Israeli army nazis!
What an appropriate name for the neighborhood. We takeh mamish need the GEULA with all this fighting going on.
Still gold compared to what the BLM movement did to our country two years ago.
The community doesnt want the store, how much blood needs to be spilled before it closes down.