US EditionIsraeli police use water cannons, arrest dozens as protesters demand hostage deal
- Protesters across Israel staged a nationwide strike and demonstrations on Sunday demanding a deal to release hostages held by militants in Gaza.
- The protests followed Hamas's October 2023 attack that killed about 1,219 people in Israel and took 251 hostages, some still held in Gaza according to the Israeli military.
- Demonstrators blocked roads including the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem highway, set tires on fire, and gathered at key sites like Hostage Square, where a large flag with hostage portraits was displayed.
- Far-Right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich criticized the strike as a detrimental effort that aids Hamas by endangering the hostages held underground and pressuring Israel to capitulate to its adversaries, while others advocated for ending the conflict and securing the hostages' release.
- The strike and protests reflect growing public pressure amid Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza, which has caused severe humanitarian conditions and displaced many, suggesting tensions between calls for a deal and military plans.
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Protests against Israel in war: Tens of thousands are demonstrating against Netanyahu's Gaza policy and for hostage release, while the military is arming.
In Israel hundreds of thousands have demonstrated with strikes and blockades for an end to the war and the release of all hostages, but the Netanyahu government wants to expand its offensive in Gaza.
Israelis stage nationwide protests to demand end to Gaza war and release of hostages - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM — Thousands of Israelis took part in a nationwide strike on Sunday in support of families of hostages held in Gaza, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach an agreement with Hamas to end the war and release the remaining captives.
The Hostage Families Forum called for a national strike and demonstrations on Sunday to demand that Netanyahu agree with Hamas and reject the new phase of the Prime Minister’s war, which he wants to occupy Gaza City. Returning to the figures of the genocide in Gaza: “We need the world not to see us as numbers alone.” Hundreds of thousands of protesters, according to an estimate from the Hostage Families Forum, gathered on Sunday night in Tel Avi…
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