Racist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is seeking to implement a new policy dictating how police are to handle protests, which would forbid demonstrators from blocking major roads or streets. The document, which is four pages long, outlines “critical roads” that must remain open and cannot be obstructed by people or objects.
The new policy, published in full Thursday, includes main roads and highways, access roads to Ben-Gurion Airport, hospitals, emergency routes, and roads in the cities. The document also outlines more measures to be taken against protests held outside the homes of ministers and public officials, as well as forbidding the placement of large objects on roads that cannot be blocked.
Protesters from Standing Together and Soldiers for Hostages in front of the home of army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Thursday, August 28, 2025 (Photo: Standing Together)
The new policy, published in full Thursday, August 28, however according to Haaretz, Police Commissioner Danny Levy has said he objected to the “policy document” that would significantly limit the right to protest. The fascist minister went public with his document days after protesters against war in Gaza and for a hostage-ceasefire deal staged nationwide demonstrations, blocking highways, roads, junctions and streets across Israel. Two major days of protest have swept the country over the past two weeks, and organizers have vowed to continue to bring people out into the streets in a bid to exert pressure on the far-right government to end the war.
“Ben Gvir is afraid of the protest movement, and seeks to suppress it through the police, because he and his friends know that it expresses the demand of the majority of the public to end the war to bring back the hostages”, Hadash said. “Ben-Gvir thinks outlawing protests will make the public stop demanding an end of war. But it won’t, silencing people won’t end the war – it just proves how deeply unpopular this genocidal government is.”
On Thursday evening a demonstration was held in Haifa denouncing the deliberate killing of journalists by Israeli occupation forces and demanding an immediate end to the genocide and starvation on Gaza and six activists were detained by police.
Earlier, eight protesters were arrested as dozens demonstrated on in front of the army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir’s home in Ramat Hasharon, spilling red paint on the street while calling on him to refuse the government’s plan to retake the Gaza Strip.
The protesters, from the organizations Standing Together and Soldiers for Hostages, called on Zamir to refuse Netanyahu’s government’s plan to take over the Gaza Strip. “We refuse our government’s genocidal war! We refuse the continued starvation of Palestinians! We spilled red paint in front of the home of army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to demand that he refuse to carry out illegal orders to occupy Gaza. We won’t stop disturbing routine across this land, even as police crackdown on protests.”
All Zionist parties condemned the protest in Ramat Hasharon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the protesters “extremist activists,” and said that “attempts to hurt the army and its commanders must be heavily denounced.”
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