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Israel police boss

threatens to send anti-
war protesters to Gaza
‘on buses’
Kobi Shabtai says there will be
‘zero tolerance’ for protests in
support of Gaza in Israel.
Israel's police chief Kobi Shabtai attends a

weekly cabinet meeting [File: Gil Cohen-
Magen/Pool via Reuters]
By Al Jazeera Staff
19 Oct 2023
Israel’s police chief, Kobi Shab-

tai, has said there will be “zero
tolerance” for protests in sup-
port of Gaza in Israel, threaten-
ing to send anti-war demonstra-
tors to the besieged Palestinian
enclave that Israel has been
bombarding daily for nearly two
weeks.
Shabtai’s comments came in a

video posted on the TikTok
channel of the Israeli police on
Tuesday. Israeli media picked it
up on Wednesday after police
broke up a rally in Haifa in sup-
port of Gaza, arresting six peo-
ple.
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“Whoever wants to become an

Israeli citizen, welcome,” Shab-
tai said. “Anyone who wants to
identify with Gaza is welcome. I
will put him on the buses head-
ing there now.”
In the short video, Shabtai also

said there would be “zero toler-
ance for any instance of incite-
ment … there will be no authori-
sation for protests”.
He said that Israel is “in a state

of war … we’re not in a situation
where we will allow all sorts of
people to come and test us”.
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Palestinian social media users ‘shadow

banned’ over content
Israel Police spokesman Eli Levy

told Army Radio on Wednesday
that since the start of the Gaza
war on October 7, 63 people in
Israel have been arrested on sus-
picion of supporting or inciting
“terror”.
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Police officials told the Ynet

news site on Wednesday that
they are scouring social media to
find Palestinians in Israel who
were expressing support for
Hamas, the group running the
besieged Gaza Strip.
Israel has imposed a “complete

siege” on Gaza, cutting off access
to food, water, electricity and
fuel for the strip’s 2.3 million
residents after Gaza-based
Hamas fighters launched an at-
tack into southern Israel on Oc-
tober 7. Israeli authorities say at
least 1,400 people, most of them
civilians, were killed in the at-
tack, more than 4,400 were in-
jured and 199 others were taken
captive by Hamas.
Since the attack, Israel has bom-

barded Gaza from the air in a
devastating campaign that has
reduced entire neighourhoods to
rubble. Palestinian authorities
have said that more than 3,400
people have been killed and
more than 12,000 others
wounded in the Israeli assault.
“After Operation Guardian of

the Walls [the 2021 war with
Gaza, which saw many Arab-
Jewish clashes in mixed towns],
we learned our lesson, and es-
tablished a ‘war room’ to
counter such incitement,” said
Assistant Commissioner Dror
Asraf.
“[Today, the operation] identi-

fies online incitement or plan-
ning or any operational informa-
tion that we identify on all the
platforms, which has a goal of
disrupting public order and
harming others.”
Meanwhile, the ethics panel of

the Israeli parliament has voted
to suspend a left-wing parlia-
ment member, Ofer Cassif, for
what it deemed as anti-Israel
statements after the war broke
out.
Cassif had given an interview in

which he accused the govern-
ment of Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu of enacting a
plan in Gaza, which he com-
pared with the Nazis’ “Final So-
lution” against Jews in Europe.
On another occasion, he told

foreign media that “Israel want-
ed this violence”, in reference to
the Hamas attack.
According to the Jerusalem

Post, Cassif has been suspended
for 45 days.
In a social media post published

on Wednesday, Cassif called the
Knesset’s decision “another nail
in the coffin of freedom of politi-
cal expression”.
“In each of my interviews, I em-

phasised my complete condem-
nation and deep disgust for the
criminal massacres by Hamas.
The political statements against
the occupation and the war are
not statements against Israel,
since peace and justice also
serve it and its inhabitants,” he
said.
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Israel’s police chief, Kobi Shab-

Shabtai’s comments came in a

Liverpool star Mohamed Salah

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‘Can’t stay silent any more’: Rage

“Whoever wants to become an

In the short video, Shabtai also

He said that Israel is “in a state

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Police officials told the Ynet

Israel has imposed a “complete

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“After Operation Guardian of

“[Today, the operation] identi-

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