Hundreds collect demanding an finish to the battle and the discharge of Israeli captives in Gaza.
Hundreds of Israelis rallied in central Tel Aviv, calling on the federal government to finish the war on Gaza and safe the speedy launch of Israeli captives held within the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that in Tel Aviv, the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board, an Israeli marketing campaign group, held its weekly rally Saturday in “Hostages Sq.”, whereas one other demonstration by households of captives is happening exterior the Israeli navy headquarters.
A separate antigovernment protest can be occurring at Habima Sq. in Tel Aviv.
The Occasions of Israel reported that Shai Mozes, whose mother and father have been held captive and launched in separate alternate offers, instructed the group on the protest in Habima Sq. that Israel’s “actual enemy is just not Hamas, however Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s destroying Israel as a Jewish and democratic state”.
Netanyahu’s critics in Israel have accused the prime minister of extending the battle for his personal private and political survival.
Haaretz additionally reported that protests are anticipated in different cities, together with Jerusalem, Haifa, and Beersheba, in addition to at dozens of different websites and intersections throughout Israel.
After Netanyahu introduced an expanded offensive within the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board criticised the transfer in a press release, saying the plan is “sacrificing” these nonetheless held within the Palestinian territory.
Hamas releases video of two Israeli captives alive in Gaza
Hamas’s armed wing launched a video on Saturday exhibiting two Israeli captives alive within the Gaza Strip, with one of many two males calling to finish the 19-month-long battle.
Israeli media recognized the pair within the undated video as Elkana Bohbot and Yosef Haim Ohana.
The three-minute video launched by Hamas’s Qassam Brigades reveals one of many captives, recognized by media as 36-year-old Bohbot, visibly weak and mendacity on the ground wrapped in a blanket.
Ohana, 24, speaks in Hebrew within the video, urging the Israeli authorities to finish the battle in Gaza and safe the discharge of all remaining captives.
Bohbot and Ohana have been each kidnapped by Palestinian fighters from the location of a music pageant throughout Hamas’s assault on southern Israel on October 7 2023.
