Protest outside Netanyahu's Jerusalem residence

Описание: (1 Mar 2023)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem - 1 March 2023
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1. Various of police pushing away protesters gathered outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence
2. Pull-out from protester shouting (Hebrew) "Where were you in Huwara?"
3. Various of police cordoning off area
4. Mounted police
5. Various of police facing off protesters
6. Close-up of two protesters chanting in Hebrew: "Where were you in Huwara?"
7. Police blocking road with metal railing
8. Various of protesters with Israeli flags chanting (Hebrew) "Democracy."
STORYLINE:
Protesters scuffled with police near Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday, as weeks of anti-government protests turned violent for the first time.

Thousands of demonstrators across the country staged a “national disruption day,” the latest in a string of mass protests against Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul Israel's judiciary and weaken the country's Supreme Court.

The plan has drawn heavy criticism from wide swaths of Israeli society and pleas from international allies for Netanyahu to slow down.

A wave of unusually intense Israeli-Palestinian violence in the occupied West Bank has helped fuel tensions, with radical West Bank settlers rampaging through a Palestinian village earlier this week.

Netanyahu and his coalition partners, a collection of ultra-Orthodox and hard-line nationalist parties, say the plan is needed to rein in the powers of unelected judges.

Critics say Netanyahu, a defendant standing trial for corruption charges, holds a personal grudge against the justice system and is pushing the country toward autocracy.

AP video shot by Moshe Edri

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