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Saturday, April 6, 2024
200 protesters in Rehovot call for hostage deal, new elections
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Some 200 protesters in the central city of Rehovot are demanding a deal for the release of hostages and immediate elections, the Ynet news site reports.
Numerous protests are planned across the country for Saturday night marking six months since the captives were abducted to Gaza during the October 7 Hamas massacre.
The past week has seen an increasing convergence between the protests of the families and the mass anti-government demonstrations that were a weekly event in the months before October 7. Some of the families are accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking a deal for political reasons.
“Six months where 134 women and men are being abused, starved and raped daily, half a year of criminal abandonment by Netanyahu and all the partners in his cabinet and government who are not doing anything to remove the obstacles from a [hostage] deal,” organizers said in a statement.
The Times of Israel Community.