A violent confrontation broke out on Friday evening at the Glilot police station in Herzliya, after hundreds of protesters who are against the government’s planned judicial reform clashed with officers at the station.
The incident began when the demonstrators, who were carrying Israeli flags, entered the station and demonstrated against the arrest of one of their friends, who was detained earlier in the day during a demonstration outside the home in Herzliya of billionaire Yitzchak Mirilashvili, owner of the right-wing television network Channel 14.
The protest outside the home of Mirilashvili, whom the demonstrators accuse of being a mouthpiece of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, culminated in the arrest of two suspects, one of whom was released a short time later while the second remained in custody. Some 500 protesters, according to organizers, arrived later at the Glilot station to protest the continued detention of their friend.
According to the Israel Police, some 30 protesters were evacuated from the Gillot police station during the incident on Friday evening.
The police added that during the evacuation, one of the protesters was arrested. Footage from the scene shows a confrontation breaking out as police arrest one of the demonstrators and drag him back into the building after he is show lying down on the floor.
One activist, a man in his sixties, collapsed and required medical attention, according to reports.
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