"A man in a white button-up shirt and suit trousers puts his hands in the air as a police officer grabs him. He appears to steady himself on the officer's shoulders. He's then punched multiple times by multiple officers. People watching on scream. It's one of the first violent acts that take place as New South Wales police attempt to disperse protesters demonstrating in central Sydney on Monday against the visit of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog."
"Only minutes earlier, a judge ruled against protest organiser Palestine Action Group's challenge to special police powers, bestowed by the Minns government for the duration of Herzog's four-day visit. It gives the hundreds of police present expanded powers to issue move-on orders. Those came on top of another power handed to police by the government in the wake of December's Bondi terror attack in which 15 people were killed."
Thousands of protesters gathered in central Sydney to demonstrate against Israeli president Isaac Herzog, chanting for him to face the international criminal court for alleged incitement related to Gaza. Police deployed in large numbers under expanded powers granted for Herzog's four-day visit and following post-Bondi counterterror legislation, with a judge rejecting a legal challenge to those powers minutes before the protest. Confrontations escalated as officers issued move-on orders and attempted to disperse crowds. Multiple protesters and bystanders were injured, including a 69-year-old woman with four broken vertebrae; witnesses recorded officers repeatedly punching a man in a white shirt.
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