Crisis in Tel Aviv over a sculpture depicting Netanyahu's severed head in front of the court

A sculpture of a severed head representing Benjamin Netanyahu, placed in front of the occupation's Central Court, has sparked widespread controversy and accusations of incitement, prompting the Likud party to file an official complaint with the police.

This scene comes amid a sharp internal division in Israel, where the ruling Likud party considered this act to be "direct incitement to assassinate" the Prime Minister, especially as he was testifying in the corruption cases he is accused of.

According to the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, the complaint filed by lawyer Tamar Arbel focused on the statue embodying a "severed head" of Netanyahu, which was placed on a platform outside the courtroom, with the phrase "7/10" engraved on his forehead, in reference to holding him responsible for the occupation's failure to confront the "Al-Aqsa Flood" attack.

The Likud party strongly condemned this act, describing it as a "classic image of violent execution", considering that it exceeded all previous forms of protest, and that this embodiment crosses "criminal red lines", and aims to prepare public opinion to accept the idea of liquidating the Prime Minister.

The accusations were not limited to the demonstrators, but also extended to the government's judicial advisor, Gali Baharav-Miara, whom the party accused of providing a "safe space for criminals" by repeatedly refusing to open investigations into similar previous complaints, which led to the closure of incitement files without accountability.

The complaint also criticized the performance of the occupation police, expressing surprise at the officers present at the scene standing by as spectators without intervening to remove the sculpture, and demanded that the police commissioner immediately move to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice.