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Footage shows police beating Joint List MK at demonstration

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Published: 13 April 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Ofer Cassif files complaint after police seen punching, pushing him to the ground as protesters shout that he’s a member of Knesset; police say he started it

Joint List MK files complaint after police beat him at protest (Times of Israel)
Ofer Cassif says violence against him was a symptom, a violation of the sovereignty and dignity of the Knesset

He’s an MK, you ‘psychopaths’: New footage shows police beating lawmaker (Times of Israel)
Officers seen punching, pushing Joint List MK Ofer Cassif to ground as protesters shout that he’s a member of Knesset; police open probe but say he started it

Israeli police officer who beat lawmaker claims he was attacked first (Haaretz)
The Joint List's Ofer Cassif says officers at Sheikh Jarrah were 'going wild, not letting people demonstrate' as weekly protest in support of the neighborhood's Palestinian residents draws large crowd

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Palestinian bystander, 14, loses eye from rubber bullet allegedly fired by IDF (Times of Israel)
Izz al-Din, 14, was in a vegetable shop Friday when Israeli soldiers used rubber bullets against protesters nearby; IDF neither confirms nor denies Israeli fire led to injury

Photo: Israeli policemen detain MK Ofer Cassif during a demonstration in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood on April 9 (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
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