The Israel Bar Association announces that it supports a general strike called for August 17 to protest the prolonging of the war against Hamas in Gaza with the government’s approval of a plan for a military takeover of Gaza City, calling on the nation’s lawyers to join suit.
“Freeing the hostages is a moral, Zionist and Jewish order of the first degree, a condition for Israel’s security and existence,” Bar Association head Amit Becher says in a statement.
He urges the country’s large law firms to follow the Bar Association’s lead in allowing employees to miss work on Sunday without having their pay docked.
“We call on Israel’s government: Listen to the IDF chief of staff, to the voices of all the heads of the security branches and listen to the voices of the people, act for the freedom of the hostages and reach a deal to free them now, before it’s too late,” Becher says.
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