Israel continues its attacks on the Gaza Strip. Families of Israelis held captive in the region and thousands of people who want to support them are organizing protests in many cities, especially in the capital Tel Aviv. Israelis who gathered in the capital today reacted to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. The demonstrators who blocked the Ayalon Highway demanded that the captives return to their homes and called on Netanyahu to resign due to his policy.
On Begin Street, police clashed with demonstrators. Israeli police stated that the demonstration was illegal and called on the demonstrators to return to Kaplan Street.
Speaking at the demonstration, the prisoner’s relative said, “Netanyahu and Smotrich plan to build villas on the corpses of those killed and captives in Gaza. They want to build a villa on my Matan, but this will not happen.”
A DEMONSTRATION WAS HELD IN FRONT OF NETANYAHU’S HOUSE TOO!
More than a thousand demonstrators gathered with Israeli flags, drums and whistles in the coastal city of Haifa, as well as around Netanyahu’s personal residence in the northern city of Caesarea. Thousands of people marched in West Jerusalem, demanding that the government make an agreement to release the captives and demand early elections.
Israelis, who want an agreement to be signed as soon as possible for the resignation of the government and the return of prisoners in the Gaza Strip, blocked roads and intersections in different parts of the country.
Hamas’s military wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, published a video today in which it called on the government to make a “prisoner exchange agreement” and return the 2 Israelis it holds to their homes.
In the video published on the Telegram account of the Qassam Brigades, the prisoners stated that they were living under difficult conditions under the attacks of the Israeli army and asked for a prisoner exchange agreement to be made as soon as possible.
The Egyptian delegation, headed by Egyptian Intelligence Chief Abbas Kamil, paid a visit to Israel yesterday. Hamas announced that it had received Israel’s official response regarding its stance on the prisoner exchange and ceasefire agreement, and that it would examine the proposal and present the movement’s response to mediators.
Netanyahu is accused by Israel and the international community of not making a prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas for political reasons. It is stated that the main disagreement between the parties is that Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire, while Israel insists on its attacks on Gaza. Hamas demands that more than 1.5 million Palestinians who were forcibly displaced in the Gaza Strip return to their homes in the north, and Israel It is shared that Turkey insists on continuing its land occupation in Gaza.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, far-right figures in the Netanyahu government, are threatening to overthrow the government if a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement is signed. Some relatives of prisoners were physically attacked by Netanyahu supporters in addition to the reactions they received on social media, in demonstrations where they called on the government. states that they visited.
(AA-IHA)
