Hundreds in Tel Aviv rail against Netanyahu over Iran deal, Oct. 7 probe

Some 500 people rally at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speakers rail against the premier’s failure to secure Israel’s stated goals in the war with Iran, and his rejection of a state commission of inquiry into the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023.

Addressing Netanyahu, tech entrepreneur and retired Air Force officer Kobi Richter says, “We, the pilots… won a sweeping and total victory in Iran. You, the supposed strong global leader, failed.”

Also speaking at the rally is Carmit Palti-Katzir, who is the sister of slain Hamas hostage Elad and the daughter of October 7 victim Rami and late-released hostage Hanna Katzir.

Palti-Katzir says affected families are now engaged in a “struggle for the truth” about that day, while Netanyahu, in his rejection of an independent probe of the security debacle, “seeks to move on” from the massacre and “avert his gaze from the thousands of graves.”

She also slams Netanyahu for again touting in a press conference this week his success in returning Israel’s hostages from Gaza, dead or alive.

“Don’t be proud that you brought them back,” she says. “Be ashamed that they were abducted.”

Elad Katzir survived in captivity for 99 days, and there were multiple opportunities to get him out alive in a deal, Palti-Katzir says.

“How cheap was his life in the eyes of this leadership?” she asks, as the crowd erupts in jeers.