Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Wednesday evening in front of the Knesset (Parliament) building in West Jerusalem, then headed to the Prime Minister’s house. Benjamin Netanyahu In rejection of the dismissal of the former Minister of Defense Yoav GalantWhile an opinion poll revealed that 52% believe that Netanyahu is endangering security.
The day before yesterday evening, Tuesday, Netanyahu fired Gallant and appointed his replacement Yisrael KatzThe decision also included the appointment of the head of the National Right Party Gideon Saar Minister of Foreign Affairs instead of Katz.
Netanyahu’s decision sparked a state of anger in Israel amid internal accusations that he sacrificed an experienced defense minister in order to preserve his government coalition.
The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that a day after the dramatic dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from his position, thousands of Israelis organized a demonstration yesterday evening, Wednesday, in Agrant Square near the Knesset building in Jerusalem, and then headed to Netanyahu’s house.
Also according to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, thousands of Israelis went to Netanyahu’s house in Jerusalem yesterday evening, Wednesday, to protest Gallant’s dismissal.
The protesters chanted slogans against Gallant’s dismissal, and demanded an immediate deal with the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) to return the Israeli prisoners detained in Gaza, to form an official investigation committee into the Hamas attack on Israeli military bases and settlements on October 7, 2023, and to advance the date of the elections, according to the same source.
The newspaper quoted the former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon He said during the demonstration in front of the Knesset, “Who would have believed that a prime minister would replace an experienced defense minister with an inexperienced one during the war (on the Gaza Strip) in order to preserve the coalition.”
He also asked, “Who would have believed that in order to preserve the coalition, a prime minister would prevent the recruitment of Haredi Jews, while the army is short of 20,000 combat soldiers?”
Ya’alon, who served as Defense Minister between 2013 and 2016, added, “Who would have believed that a prime minister would sabotage the chances of reaching deals to release the kidnapped (detainees)?”
In his first appearance after his dismissal, Gallant said on Tuesday evening, in a televised speech, that Netanyahu dismissed him as a result of a disagreement over three issues, namely his refusal to approve the passage of a law exempting the Haredim from conscription, his insistence on returning prisoners in Gaza alive, and the formation of an official investigation committee into the events. October 7, 2023.
Shortly after Netanyahu announced the dismissal of his defense minister, social media began to buzz with calls for demonstrations in a number of locations across Israel.
The largest protests were in Tel Aviv, where tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated, closed the main Ayalon Street in both directions for about 4 hours, and chanted slogans denouncing Netanyahu.
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In an opinion poll conducted by Israeli Channel 13, 52% of respondents expressed their belief that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses a threat to state security after the leaks witnessed by his office.
While 60% said they believe that Gallant is most suitable for the position of Defense Minister, compared to only 14% for Katz.
When the channel was asked about the possible reasons for his dismissal, 66% said that they believed that Gallant’s dismissal was for political reasons, compared to 25% who saw it as being in the interest of Israel.
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The dismissal came at a time when Israel, with absolute American support, was committing genocide in the Gaza Strip for more than a year, leaving about 146,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in One of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
