Demonstrators gather in Tel Aviv to protest against the government and call for early elections and a deal to release hostages held by Hamas, April 6, 2024 (Iddo Schejter / Times of Israel)
Demonstrators are gathering at Democracy Square in Tel Aviv to protest against the government, call for early elections and demand Israel agree to a deal to release hostages held by Hamas.
As thousands of protesters congregate, with many carrying Israeli flags and various signs with anti-government slogans, police barricade parts of Begin Street and Kaplan Street, as well as nearby exits of the Ayalon Highway to prevent demonstrators from blocking the road, as they do weekly.
Demonstrators on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv protest against the government and call for early elections and a deal to release hostages held by Hamas, April 6, 2024 (Yair Palti / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
Because a large turnout is expected, for the first time since the war began, the demonstration is being held at the intersection of Kaplan and Begin Streets where the anti-judicial overhaul protests were held every Saturday night last year prior to October 7, leading Tel Aviv City Hall to rename the junction Democracy Square.
Weekly protests against the government’s proposed judicial overhaul ended abruptly when the war broke following Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, but were revived about two months ago as a movement calling for early elections took off. Until tonight, demonstrations were held at the Kirya military headquarters’ south entrance on Kaplan Street, about 400 meters from Democracy Square.
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