Police use water cannons to disperse Tel Aviv protesters against Netanyahu

Israeli police dispersed participants of a spontaneous anti-government rally that was held for several hours on the Ayalon highway in eastern Tel Aviv, according to Israeli TV Channel 13.

The protesters blocked the highway for several hours, set fires and planned to remain on the road at least until morning. According to estimates by the private company Crowd Solutions, cited by the TV channel, there were around 105,000 people in the area with the largest concentration of protesters.

At 3 a.m. (same as Moscow time), the police, who had not intervened in the events so far, began to push back the protesters. Some of the protesters began to resist the police, there were clashes, the police began to actively use water cannons.