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6/11/2024–|Last updated: 11/6/202401:22 AM (Mecca time)
Thousands of Israelis came out on Tuesday evening in several cities, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem, to protest the dismissal of the Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
Israeli media reported that violent clashes took place in Haifa between the Israeli police and protesters against Gallant’s dismissal.
The Walla website reported that the police suppressed dozens of protesters after they stormed barriers around the Prime Minister’s family home Benjamin Netanyahu In Jerusalem.
According to the Times of Israel newspaper, protests took place in Haifa, Netanya, Beersheba, and at intersections throughout the country, in addition to major demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
According to the same source, dozens are also protesting Nahariya And other towns in northern Israel, despite instructions from the Home Front Command to limit public gatherings amid continued rocket fire from Lebanon.
🇮🇱 URGENT ISRAEL I Following the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, strong protests are reported in Tel Aviv. The Government considers the protest on the Avalon Highway “illegal” and has the police ready to evict them. pic.twitter.com/5AVGpx3xyM
— Homo Economicus 🇦🇷 (@1homoeconomicus) November 5, 2024
On Tuesday evening, Netanyahu announced Gallant’s dismissal, saying that he did not trust his management of the ongoing military operations, and that “the crisis of trust that occurred between them made it impossible to continue managing the war in this way.”
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the prime minister appointed the foreign minister Yisrael Katz Successor to Gallant, and head of the National Right Party Gideon Saar Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Galant sparked mixed internal reactions, dominated by severe criticism, while hundreds of protesters took to the streets in rejection of the decision, while the occupation army continues to wage a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which later expanded its scope to Lebanon.
