Some 400 left-wing protesters hold a silent vigil for slain Gaza children on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street.
The protesters stand on the sidewalk holding up candles and pictures of children Israel has killed in the Strip since renewing hostilities there on March 18. Each picture includes the child’s name, date, and place of death where they were killed.
The silence is punctuated when anti-government protesters from the Habima demonstration march through en route to a hostage families demonstration on nearby Begin Road. Afterward, the left-wing activists march in silence to that protest.
Among them is MK Ofer Cassif of the binational communist Hadash party.
This is the first such silent vigil since the 12-day war with Iran last month, during which an Iranian ballistic missile hit an adjacent building and forced shut part of the sidewalk usually used by the vigil-holders. Last weekend, left-wing activists flocked instead to Haifa for a large anti-war rally.
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