Following the Thursday night incident where police officers enforcing COVID guidelines at Vishnitz Merkaz (Reb Mendel) were attacked, many people are stating that police are taking revenge against the community. Local residents who have followed all COVID restrictions that YWN spoke with state that hundreds of officers terrorized the entire Bnei Brak all night, and again on Motzei Shabbos. The crackdown continued, and residents began clashing with police.
Shocking footage has emerged of police using excessive force at many hotspots around the country.
In Ashdod on Sunday morning, police arrived to enforce the closure of a Yeshiva that was open in defiance of the restrictions. The video footage you will see below is simply appalling. Police officers are seen physically fighting with unarmed 9-year-old children. Watch how police toss the children around like sacks of potatoes. In any other civilized country, these officers would immediately be stripped of their badges and guns.
On Sunday morning, during a cabinet meeting held via video conference, an argument broke out between Construction and Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on one side, and Public Security Minister Amir Ohana on the other side, regarding the violence in Chareidi cities and the level of force used by police officers to stop the riots.
During the back-and-forth Litzman asked Ohana to explain why the police are going “wild” in Bnei Brak.
Ohana responded by asking Litzman to explain why the local residents are going “wild” themselves.
Litzman responded and said, “The footage will tell you everything.”
Ohana then said: “If you want, you have my phone number, we can do this together and not in this forum.”
Ohana previously had kept a warm relationship with the Chareidi Ministers.
Litzman said: “I want to be clear, I condemn all use of violence, and attacking police officers is a very serious matter. But I am simply in shock by the scenes of police brutality and police actions that have taken place all throughout the night. A platoon of officers walked through the streets on a march of vengeance striking out and hitting people violently while throwing shock grenades. Something like this can only take place in Bnei Brak and not even make it into the media or the docket for discussion today.”
Litzman continued: “One cannot take a specific group of people and lump them in together with the Chareidi populace most of which adhere to the rules and regulations. In every population group, there are different streams of people, and one cannot lump everyone in together. To incite against a large segment of the population is a red line that needs to be stopped immediately.”
Minister For Regional Partnership Ofir Akunis weighed in to support the police. “I want to support the police who act on behalf of the government. They don’t make a single decision themselves.”
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri chimed in and addressed the violence in the past few days in Bnei Brak. “From the first day, I have made every effort to adhere to all of the regulations. I condemn at every turn any infraction of the weddings and violence. Likewise, I have to say that immediately after the incidents in Bnei Brak I called Minister Ohana and I told him that I will be the first to condemn violence against police officers, and behind me will be all of the MKs from the Shas party. There is no place for violence against our officers in the State of Israel. I also made it clear to him that there is no place for acts of vengeance by the police against the public. This will only harm us all. My words fell on deaf ears. The police arrived in Bnei Brak with hundreds of officers and stun grenades, they attacked residents who were completely innocent. I strongly condemn these actions that took place in Bnei Brak. This is an embarrassment. They are destroying any trust that the populace had in the police that was built over the past few months.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Fiiiiiiinally a condemnation.
The under-aged police have been getting away with this stuff for to long.
which idiot parents let their children out to be at these protests
they should lock up the parents
WAKE UP STUPID PEOPLE! What an absolute disgrace! Do not leave your kids loose to confront the police. You are not protecting the children. Everyone should be gebenched and realise that social distancing is not an anti-Jewish law. It’s not required WORLD WIDE to oppress Jews. It’s there to PROTECT each and every one of us throughout the world. Just comply with the laws and you’ll see! Not one policeman will then enter the orthodox areas! There will be no need to have these idiotic confrontations. Certainly these stupid, disgusting ways of behaviour of yelling “Nazis” at police who are trying to enforce a law that is there FOR OUR PROTECTION. Boruch Hashem, most of us do not know first hand what a Nazi is. They were subhuman beasts whose whole desire is the eradication chas vesholom of Yidden and Yiddishkeit. If they were in charge now, they would simply leave keep the areas closed off to the outside world and cause the virus to proliferate and destroy thousands more people exactly as they did 80 years ago when they shut Yidden in ghettos and in cattle cars so that typhoid and countless other infectious diseases did the job of destruction for them. Let’s stop allowing silly, loud-mouthed kids to rule the streets, bringing harm to so many people and start behaving ourselves RESPONSIBLY. That means, comply with the health advice that is being given. Evading the law is costing lives!
i wonder if the nightly demonstrations outside of netanyahu’s residence are being patrolled by police for covid compliance
I dont see much “violence” in these videos.
The 9 yr old wasnt hurt, he was unceremoniously dumped back where he should have been held by his brother.
I dont see any egregious action by the police here. and I am no fan of israeli police
They deserve each other. Where are the parents of those kids. And yes that tall bold cop needs some retraining or find another profession
And somehow this justified destroying a train car and a train station? These charedim are not helping themselves by this type of action. Provoking the policw by throwing stones at the them just gives them a reason to put on their worst face and we see the results. We need to set an example with our behavior and not behave like the rishaim we look down upon.
Convince me why they shouldn’t be called NAZIS?
Also try to convince me that they are doing this L’shaim Shomayim to make sure everyone stays healthy
Try to convince me that the department of health and the secular politicians who PUSHED Litzman out because he is NOT a scientist, are doing a better job with regards to COVID?
Litzman time 300 deaths
“Scientists time over 3000 deaths 10 to 1 ratio
Good look on making a good argument
It sad to see Jews fighting with Jews. Did we learn nothing from Nazi Germany? 🙁
These police are pure Nazis. In America you respect police because they earn their respect. Here, the police are the garbage of society, because anyone with any decency gets a professional job. Here, they don’t become police because they want to help, they become olice because they can’t get a decent job.
If I had seen religious Jews act like this 30 years ago I never would have become religious. These people are worse than Arab terrorists, because these “Torah Jews” should know better. Absolutely disgusting behavior.
@Refoel Moishe:
1) It is terrible that many people are flouting the virus. They should distance and mask up, etc. I’m 100% with you on that.
2) The laws themselves are invalid due to the illegitimacy of the Zionist entity, etc.; the regulations need to be kept m’seichel alone. I wish there existed a legitimate entity with the true power to enforce some set of COVID regulations. Such does not, however, currently exist.
3) The police do not give a damn about our protection. This is demonstrated by countless videos on this and other websites.
4) Certainly, the actions of the German Nazis, yemach shemam v’zichram, were worse on a basic, technical level. That is not the point. When brothers hate their brothers and sadistically torture them to such an extent (and no, I don’t think the videos above represent torture, I am referring here to myriad other videos; the above videos are a lower-scale example), then that is (arguably, at least) more heinous than a non-Jewish German soldier performing actions that are, as I said, on a basic and technical level, far worse.