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Lawyers Daniel Hacklai and Idan Seger from the Constitutional Law and Human Rights Forum at the Israel Bar Association sent a letter on Tuesday night to the , and the Legal Adviser of the Police, Deputy Superintendent Elazar Kahana, calling for an "urgent assessment of the escalation and false arrests of demonstrators against the Israeli government and the ." "Many disturbing elements existed throughout the period of anti-judicial reform protests that preceded October 7, 2023," the letter reads at the beginning. "But they have become infinitely more disturbing, infinitely more violent, and infinitely more frightening since the renewal of anti-judicial reform protests, combining the demand for the return of the hostages from the Gaza Strip and the demand for ousting the government.
" The forum referred to police violence against male and female protesters and described severe cases of unjustified injuries inflicted on citizens by police officers. "It is about grabbing protesters by their hair, throwing protesters to the ground, a policeman whipping protestors on the head who did nothing wrong," it said. They also noted cases such as "dragging protesters without justification, breaking a protester's leg by horse trampling, pushing older protesters whose only sin was standing on the sidewalk, injuring many protesters in a variety of ways.
" In the letter, they emphasized the increasing use of skunk water and stun grenades and demanded that the attorney general "order the Commissio.
