Live updates: Israel protests erupt in Tel Aviv as Netanyahu’s crisis deepens

Mass protests erupted in Israel Sunday night time as hundreds of individuals took to the streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem amid a worsening political disaster within the nation.

Israelis took to the streets after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his protection minister over his opposition to a deliberate judicial overhaul.

Waving Israeli flags and chanting “democratia,” protesters might be seen blocking streets and bridges, together with the principle Ayalon Freeway.

Protesters lit a number of fires on the principle freeway in Tel Aviv, their acrid, black smoke billowing into the sky, partly obscuring a number of the metropolis’s iconic skyscrapers. Demonstrators additionally gathered beside the freeway, burning scrap steel and wooden with nearly no police round.

Protests had thinned out by round 2 a.m. native time on Monday in Tel Aviv. CNN’s crew on the bottom noticed about half a dozen police automobiles rushing towards the place the protesters had been and reside footage from the scene confirmed safety forces firing water cannons on protestors nonetheless gathered.

A police spokesperson within the metropolis informed CNN police had been getting ready for the dispersal of the protesters from southbound Ayalon close to the Hashalom interchange and known as on protesters to go away the realm and evacuate the highway.