Overview
- Police dispersed unauthorized anti-war protests in Tel Aviv and Haifa, arresting 13 people in Tel Aviv and five in Haifa.
- Authorities said emergency regulations prohibit gatherings of more than 50 people, citing a Home Front Command ruling to justify the dispersals.
- AFP journalists and video showed officers pushing protesters, knocking some to the ground, and using a chokehold on one person in Tel Aviv.
- Organizers from the Jewish-Arab group Standing Together said police were told to make arrests to silence dissent and warned the movement is growing.
- A new Israel Democracy Institute poll found 78% of Jewish Israelis support the war, compared with 19% among Arab Israelis, and opposition rose to 11.5% since early March.