Thousands protest against Netanyahu in Israel

Tel Aviv. About one hundred thousand people, according to the organizing organizations, demonstrated yesterday in Tel Aviv to demand: the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the calling of early elections and an agreement for the return of the Israeli hostages kidnapped in the Gaza Strip, when Six months have passed since the attacks by Palestinian militias on October 7 and the beginning of the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip.

With caricatures of Bibi Netanyahu, Israeli flags and slogans against the premier’s government, a crowd gathered in Democracy Square, where they also chanted hostile slogans.

After the demonstration, attendees joined the rally calling for the release of the hostages a few hundred meters away where they demanded a negotiated solution to free the 129 captives still held in Gaza, of whom 34 have died, according to the Israeli army.

Yesterday, for the first time since October 7, protesters returned to this square, the scene of massive weekly protests against the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform for more than a year before the start of the Gaza conflict. Before, they met in an area on Kaplan Street, where the headquarters of the Israeli Armed Forces is located, local press reported.

Three injured

At the time of going to press, the Israeli police had reported three protesters who were injured after being hit by a car in Tel Aviv, which did not stop until the police intervened, leaving two people with minor injuries and a third in serious condition. of health moderatehe detailed The Times of Israel.

Meanwhile, during the march there were attempts at violence carried out by protesters and law enforcement agents, mainly when officers intervened to break up the protest.

For his part, the Minister of Communications of the Israeli government, Shlomo Karhi, blamed leftist leaders inside and outside the coalition for these riots divides us in the middle of a warhe said on his social network account X.

Meanwhile, in the town of Caesarea there was at least one woman arrested near the prime minister’s private home.

Local news media such as The Times of Israelindicated that Tel Aviv was the largest protest, but they also detailed demonstrations in other 50 locations such as Haifa, Herzliya, Kfar Saba and Raanana or Karkur, to name a few.

On the occasion of six months since the attacks, Israeli President Isaac Herzog published a message to the nation, in which he stressed that he is obliged to do everything possible with creativity, persistence and determination to achieve the freedom of his 129 compatriots in the Gaza Strip.

Tomorrow (today) at 6:29 (local time) marks six months since the brutal terrorist attack and the terrible massacre. Half a year since this crime against our sisters and brothers, against our country, against humanityHerzog said.

Captive’s body recovered

Hours before the protests, the Israeli army announced that it recovered at night in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, the body of hostage Elad Katzir, 47 years old at the time of his kidnapping in the Nir Oz kibbutz. ‘Release him alive would have been possible if an agreement on the hostages had been reached in timesaid Carmit Palty Katzirk, the hostage’s sister, who also attacked her country’s leaders.

Meanwhile, in Egypt, delegations from the United States, Israel and Hamas will try today to agree on a ceasefire to the conflict that to date, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, has left 33,137 dead.

In this context, American media reported that the director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), Bill Burns; The head of the Israeli Mossad (Intelligence and Special Operations Institute), David Barnea, and Qatari and Egyptian officials will meet in Cairo.

The Palestinian movement Hamas also confirmed its attendance at the meeting in Egypt. A delegation led by the group’s deputy head in Gaza, Khalil Al-Hayya, will attend the talks, the group confirmed in a statement.