News - Middle East: Israeli police have used tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades to disperse protesters against highly-contested plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right cabinet to reform the occupying regime’s judiciary.

The violence broke out after hundreds of demonstrators blocked roads and chanted anti-Netanyahu slogans in central Tel Aviv and other places across the occupied territories as part of “Disruption Day” protests on Wednesday.

Police on horseback tried to stop demonstrators breaching barricades in Tel Aviv, with footage showing the regime’s forces dragging protesters off the road as demonstrators called out “shame,” and “we are the majority and we are out on the streets.”

Israeli media said the police, for the first time since protests began some two months ago, deployed tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons to disperse demonstrators, adding that at least 11 people sustained injuries in altercations with police and 39 others were arrested in the mass rallies.

In one video widely shared online, an Israeli cop was seen to kneel on the neck of a protester to subdue him while several others held him down.