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Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv and other areas on Monday to demand a prisoner exchange deal with the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation), amid accusations by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu By obstructing the reaching of an agreement.
The discovery of the bodies of prisoners in a tunnel in the city raised concerns. Rafah In the south Gaza StripIsrael said they were killed “at very close range” two or three days before they reached them, sparking widespread anger and a call for a strike that some areas and sectors committed to before an Israeli court ruled to end it.
Tel Aviv, Beersheba and Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem Demonstrations demanding a deal to release prisoners held in Gaza.
A general strike went into effect in Israel this morning in solidarity with the families of the detained prisoners, and in rejection of the Netanyahu government’s obstruction of a prisoner exchange deal to return them.
Local authorities, municipalities, universities, schools, public transportation and a number of ministries participated in the strike, while Ben Gurion Airport witnessed a state of chaos after workers and Israeli airlines decided to continue the strike.
Channel 12 Israel quoted Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the strike is in support of the head of the political bureau of Hamas. Yahya SinwarWhile the Israeli Labor Court ruled to stop the strike, saying that it was a political strike and not motivated by a labor dispute.
The New York Times quoted an official in the Israeli Federation of Trade Unions as saying that the federation would try to call for another strike.
Prisoners' families angry
In response to the Labor Court's decision to end the strike, the families of the Israeli prisoners called for going out and participating in demonstrations calling for the protection of their sons' lives.
The families of the prisoners said that this was not a strike, but rather a matter of saving the lives of more than 100 kidnapped people who were abandoned by Netanyahu by a decision. The cabinet Last Thursday.
The families of the prisoners and those in solidarity with them demonstrated in more than one city, and the demonstrators took the initiative to close important streets and intersections in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
They also threatened to escalate their protest movement until the Netanyahu government responds to their only demand, which is to sign a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, and to stop obstructing efforts to reach it.
Police clashed with demonstrators from the families of the prisoners and those in solidarity with them in downtown Tel Aviv, where the demonstrators chanted slogans denouncing the Netanyahu government's position on the deal.
Despite the police's attempts to control the demonstrators, they succeeded in continuing and closing a number of important streets and intersections.
They also continued to chant slogans against Netanyahu and the Ministers of National Security and Finance. Itamar Ben Gvir andBezalel Smotrich.
Yesterday, Tel Aviv witnessed a massive demonstration described as the largest since the outbreak of the war, demanding an immediate deal, following the retrieval of the bodies of 6 detainees in Gaza.
