Commentator Avi Moskov accused Israeli police of using lethal force against Haredi protesters, alleging officers beat demonstrators, threw grenades at their faces, and clubbed them with the aim of deterring future protests. Moskov called the conduct a disgrace to Police Commissioner Danny Levi, according to a social media post.
Commentator Avi Moskov published a sharp accusation against Israeli police on Wednesday morning, describing the force used to disperse Haredi protests in recent days as disproportionate and intentionally brutal. Moskov wrote that the police are 'beating protesters lethally, wounding them, throwing grenades at their faces, hitting them with batons — with the goal of making them lose the will to protest again. To deter. To punish. A disgrace of a commissioner.'
The post comes amid a series of protests by ultra-Orthodox demonstrators against what they describe as selective enforcement and the extradition of draft evaders. As The Zioneer reported earlier this week, senior police sources defended the use of a graduated force scale, arguing that blocking a central thoroughfare crossed a red line. MK Meir Porush (UTJ) called for the police chief to resign, and journalist Yishai Cohen also accused the police of selective violence.
Moskov's wording goes further than previous statements by explicitly alleging that the force was intended to deter — not merely to restore order. The accusation remains based on a single source, and the police have not yet responded to this specific post.
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