Several hundred Israelis demonstrated this Saturday in Tel Aviv to express their anger against the government, which they believe is incapable of achieving a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and freeing the 97 hostages held in the Palestinian territory for more than a year.
Posters of the hostages and flags in hand, they demanded “An agreement now”, “Stop the war”, assuring that “We will not abandon them”, like every week since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, on a renamed square “Hostages Square” in the economic capital of Israel. “There have been countless opportunities to end this crisis and each one has been torpedoed by the government,” Zahiro Shahar Mor told AFP. “The cycle of violence is getting worse week after week and we don’t see an end to it,” explains this 52-year-old bank employee whose uncle, Avraham Munder, died in captivity.
They are calling for a negotiated truce with Hamas as Israel claims to have achieved the majority of its military objectives, including the elimination last month of the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Yahya Sinouar.
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