TEL Aviv District Commander Ami Eshed resigned on Wednesday after he alleged that hard-right cabinet members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to use excessive force against anti-government protesters.
According to Eshed, he could not live up to the expectations of the ministerial echelon, which he said had broken rules and blatantly interfered in the professional decision-making process.
In a televised statement, Eshed said,
“I could have easily met these expectations by using unreasonable force that would have filled up the emergency room of Ichilov [Tel Aviv hospital] at the end of every protest,” Ami Eshed, Former Tel Aviv District Commander said.
“For the first time in three decades of service, I encountered an absurd reality in which ensuring calm and order was not what was required of me but precisely the opposite,” he added.
Soon after the announcement of Eshed, hundreds of people protested on the streets of Tel Aviv.
And while the former police commander of Tel Aviv did not say any names, it can be noted that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has urged for tough measures to be taken against protesters.
