Jerusalem police disperse violent demonstrators after roads blocked

Israeli police forced a protest to end on Sunday evening in Jerusalem after demonstrators blocked traffic and threw objects at officers. The confrontation took place on Haim Bar-Lev Boulevard, where a crowd had stopped the flow of vehicles. An officer declared the gathering unlawful and ordered the group to disperse. When some participants refused to leave, they began throwing items at the police line.

Officers from the Lev HaBira station, supported by Border Police units, intervened to restore order. They used force to clear the protesters from the boulevard and reopen the roads. According to the latest update from the police, no one was injured and no arrests were made during the Jerusalem dispersal.

Violence also erupted in the city of Beit Shemesh later on Sunday night. Hundreds of rioters set fire to waste bins and damaged local infrastructure. In the chaos, protesters pushed concrete blocks onto the roadway. Two young men were injured when a concrete block fell on their feet. Police stated the men had apparently pushed the block themselves before it landed on them.

The police clarified that the injury incident happened in an area where no officers were present at the time. A police statement noted that there was no direct connection between the police activity to disperse the rioters and the specific injury to the two young men. Medical officials confirmed that two people were evacuated from the scene, apparently during the dispersal of the riot.

The events occurred on the same day as other demonstrations across the country. The Jerusalem clashes were characterized by physical contact between demonstrators and security forces. In Beit Shemesh, the focus was on property damage and the subsequent injury of the two men. Both incidents resulted in police interventions to restore normalcy to the affected streets.