About a thousand people protested in front of the home of the Minister of Internal Security, claiming that he was thwarting the civil protest. • Roads were later blocked. "

About a thousand demonstrators, most of them members of the "black flags", arrived this evening (Tuesday) near the house of the Minister of Internal Security Amir Ohana on HaSolelim Street in Tel Aviv, to demonstrate in front of his house in protest of their attempt to thwart the civil protest. After an hour in front of his house, they shouted slogans against Minister Ohana and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including a trumpet player who played the tune from the movie The Godfather.

Protesters against Minister Ohana on Yigal Alon Road in Tel Aviv // Photo: Police Spokeswoman

After about an hour of demonstration, the demonstrators went out for a procession, and they began to march along Yigal Alon Street in a southerly direction and blocked it. According to the protesters, if the police had allowed the demonstration in the garden in front of Ohana's house, they would not have gone out to block the roads. Many police forces, began to demarcate the protesters among other things through police cavalry and the local police chief informed the demonstrators that this was an illegal procession and they had to clear the axis and announced that they had a reasonable time to clear the road.

Among other things, the demonstrators carried signs that were written on them, we came to expel corruption, shame and more. Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck. Although the protest organizers did not apply for a protest, the police organized and allocated a compound at the intersection of HaSolelim Street / Tuval Street / Derech Hashalom where the protesters held the protest.

The demonstrators who marched on Yigal Alon went down to Road 20 (Ayalon North) and continue to march. Ayalon North from the Azrieli junction is blocked for traffic, now the demonstrators are also coming down to Ayalon South Road. Many police forces are working instead to disperse them and open the deputies. "We came to remind Minister Ohana that we are his bosses and he should work for us and he does not do that. We remind you that you get a salary from us," said one of the protesters. 

Mandelblit to the Acting Commissioner: "Demonstration is a Basic Democratic Right"

Meanwhile, in a letter sent this evening by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, to Deputy Commissioner of Police Moti Cohen, he wrote that "the police must make decisions without foreign considerations." The adviser expressed confidence in the police and added that "individual, professional decisions regarding handling demonstrations Dedicated to the Israel Police in your leadership, solely in accordance with its professional judgment. The Israeli police must continue to make decisions in this regard independently. "

Mandelblit added that "the decision in an individual matter regarding the determination of such and other conditions, such as time, place and way of conducting a specific demonstration, is left to the police, at their professional discretion. All this, of course, subject to the law, The legal ". 

However, the councilor warned that although the right to demonstrate is a basic democratic right, it does not mean that public order can be violated and the law violated. "As a fundamental right, the right to demonstrate is not an absolute right and must be balanced against weighty public rights and interests - maintaining public order, public peace and security ... This is of course not a permit for acts of violence, property damage or other harm to public safety and health."