2024-04-07 11:20:40
Chanting “elections now”, protesters demanded the resignation of Israel’s prime minister as the war in Gaza reached the half-year mark on Sunday.
Rallies also took place in other cities, and Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid attended one in Kfar Saba before leaving for talks in Washington.
“They haven’t learned anything, they haven’t changed,” he said, adding: “Until we send them home, they’re not going to give this country a chance to move forward.”
Israeli media reported that clashes broke out between protesters and police during the rally in Tel Aviv, and police said one protester was arrested.
The protesters were later joined in Tel Aviv by the families of the Gazan hostages and their supporters.
Earlier, the military announced that troops had recaptured the Hamas gunmen on October 7. body of a kidnapped hostage.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the body of Elad Katzir, a 47-year-old farmer from Kibbutz Nir Oz, was dug up by commandos in the southern town of Chan Yunis. He was killed by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) kidnappers and buried in mid-January, it said, citing intelligence, without elaborating. PIJ had no immediate comment.
The recovery of E. Katzir’s body brings to 12 the number of bodies of hostages that the army claims to have taken from the Gaza Strip during the war. The army says that 129 hostages are still being held in the Gaza Strip, of which 34 are presumed dead.
According to Israel, the Hamas attack in southern Israel killed 1,170 people, most of them civilians.
At least 33,137 people, mostly women and children, were killed in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s retaliatory attack against Hamas, according to the Health Ministry of the Hamas-controlled territory.
President Isaac Herzog said in a statement to mark the conflict’s half-year anniversary that Israel was waging a “bloody and difficult war.”
“Tomorrow at 6.29 am in the morning we will commemorate six months since the brutal terrorist attack and the terrible murders,” I. Herzog said on Saturday, referring to October 7. Hamas attack.
“Half a year since this crime against our sisters and brothers, against our country, since this crime against humanity,” said the president, whose role is largely symbolic.
2024-04-07 11:20:40