Protesters in Israel participated in a nationwide strike on Sunday, demanding a deal, resulting in a ceasefire with Hamas and the release of hostages living in Gaza. “Day day,” Which blocked the roads and closed businesses, marked an increase in the growing frustration of the population 22 months after war,
In response to Sunday’s protests, the police exploded the crowd with water cannons and made dozens of arrests. In one example, the authorities stopped several protesters from trying to break the Central Ilon highway in Tel Aviv, causing a confrontation between them, during which a guard was forcibly arrested, learned by CBS News. The police also seized the devices of the protesters.
The “day of the day” was organized by two groups, representing some families of hostage and bereaved families, which militant groups released videos of hostages and announced by Israel Plan for a new military aggressive In some of the most populous areas of Gaza.
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The protesters, who are afraid of further fighting, can be considered to remain in the Gaza, only 20 of which are considered alive, chanting: “We do not win war on the bodies of the hostages.”
The protesters gathered at dozens of points across Israel, with outside politicians’ houses, military headquarters and major highways where they were sprayed with water cannons, as they blocked the streets and burnt roads in smoke. Some restaurants and theater were closed in solidarity.
Police said that they had arrested 32 as part of the nationwide demonstration – one of one of the rage since the uproar More than six hostages were found dead Last September in Gaza.
“Military pressure does not bring back the hostages – it only kills them,” former hostage Arbel Yehod said in a demonstration in Tel Aviv’s hostage class. “The only way to bring them back is through a deal, together without all sports.”
“Today, we stop everything to save and bring the soldiers hostage and soldiers. Today, we stop everything to remember the highest value of the sanctity of life,” said the mother of the Anat Angress, the Horticulture Mells Angress. “Today, we stop everything to join hands – right, left, center and everything in the middle.”
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Protesters from highway intersections handed over to the yellow ribbon, the symbol that represents the platform of hostages, hostages and missing families, which organized the stoppage, said.
Even though Israel’s largest labor association, historut, eventually did not eventually join Sunday’s action, the attacks of this magnitude are relatively rare in Israel. Many businesses and municipalities decided to strike independently.
Nevertheless, the end of conflict does not appear nearby. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded immediate release of hostages, but is balanced by competitive pressures, which are harassed by Mutini’s ability within their alliance.
Israeli leaders criticize demonstrations
Netanyahu, while addressing the protests at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, said that he was benefiting Hamas.
“Those who are calling for the end of the war without the elimination of Hamas today, they are not only harshery and delaying the release of our hostages, they are also making sure that the horrors of October 7 will repeat themselves and we have to fight an endless war,” the Prime Minister said.
Members from far-flung their cabinet emphasize that they will not support any deal that allows Hamas to maintain power. The last time Israel had agreed to a ceasefire that issued the hostages, threatening to postpon Netanyahu’s government.
Finance Minister Bezellal Smotrich on Sunday called the stoppage “a bad and harmful campaign, which plays in the hands of Hamas, burys the hostage in the tunnels and attempts to surrender Israel to surrender its enemies and endanger its safety and future.”
In a statement, National Security Minister Itmar Ben-Gawir accused the protesters of trying to “weaken” Israel “. Like Smotrich, he said the strike “strengthens Hamas and delays the return of the hostages.”
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Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry said that 47 people were killed and at least 226 were injured in the area alone in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, hospitals and eyewitnesses in Gaza reported that at least 17 aids were killed by the Israeli forces on Sunday, waiting for about nine waiting trucks of the Morg Corridor. Death toll between Palestinians Waiting for food and other help in Gaza This summer has climbed, jumping around the world Starvation and malnutrition Run extensively in the enclave.
Hamza Asafor said he was north of the corridor, waiting for an convoy, when Israeli snipers opened fire, first to disperse the crowd, then hundreds of meters away from the tanks.
He looked two men with gunshot wounds – one in the chest and the other in the shoulder.
“This is either to raise or wait for this risk and my family has to die of starvation,” he said. “There is no other option.”
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which runs the distribution points, stated that there were no pills on Sunday or its sites “, which sits at the end of the aid truck routes.
Israel’s army did not immediately answer questions about attacks in three areas.
Israel’s aerial and ground war has already killed thousands of people in Gaza and displaced most of the population. The United Nations is warning that the level of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza has been at their highest level since the war began.
About 1,200 people were killed in Israel in 2023 Hamas -led attack. According to the Ministry of Health, Israel’s anti -retrorship of 61,897 people in Gaza have killed 61,897 people, who do not suggest how many fighters or citizens were, but say that there were about half of women and children.
2 And children die for reasons related to malnutrition
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, two children died on Sunday for causes related to malnutrition in Gaza, which bring the toll of seven to seven to seven deaths from the last 24 hours. The total number of starvation related deaths has increased to 251, including 110 children, the Ministry of Health said, which is part of the Hamas-Interested Government and is part of employees by medical professionals. The United Nations and independent experts consider it to be the most reliable source of casualties. Israel disputes its figures, but has not provided its own.
While the protesters in Israel demanded a ceasefire, Israel began preparing to attack the city of Gaza city and other populated parts of the strip to destroy Hamas.
The military body, which coordinates his humanitarian aid to Gaza, said on Sunday that the supply of tents to the area would resume. Cogat said it would allow the United Nations to resume tents and shelter equipment in Gaza, which is ahead of the plan to forcibly evacuate people from the Combat Zone “for their safety”.
Most of the assistance has been stopped from entering Gaza as Israel launched a total blockade in March when Israel resumed its aggressive after a ceasefire collapsed. Since delivery has partially resumed, although support organizations say that this flow is below which is necessary. Some have accused Israel of “armed assistance” through blockade and rules, saying they say that convert human aid into a tool of its political and military goals.
The Israeli aerial attack hit the capital of Yemen on Sunday, increasing attacks on Iran -backed Hauthis, who fired missiles in Israel since the war began and targeted ships in the Red Sea.
In Yemen, both IDF and a halthi-run television station announced the attacks. Yamani Station said that Al-Masirah Television said they targeted a power plant in Sanan, which led to the fire and dropped it out of service. Israel’s army stated that Sunday’s strike targeted the energy infrastructure, claiming that it was being used by Houthis, and was launched in response to missiles and drones aimed at Israel.
While some projectiles have broken their missile rescues-especially during their 12-day war with Iran in June-Israel stopped most missiles launched from Yemen.
Gaza to US Block Visitor Visa
The US State Department on Saturday announced that it would stop issuing visitor visa for the people of Gaza.
“All visiting visas for Gaza individuals are being prevented, while in recent times we make a complete and intensive review of the process and processes used to release temporary medical-human visa,” the department wrote In a social media post.
Some human groups have condemned the break because those visas can be released abroad to people requiring medical treatment, CBS news partner BBC News reported,
Non -profit organization Palestine Children Relief Fund said in a statement to BBC News that the decision “Gaza injured and seriously sick children will have a disastrous and irreversible impact on our ability to bring injured and seriously sick children for medical treatment in the United States.”