Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv for 4th straight day since return of 6 hostages’ bodies

Protester Iftach Brill's sign reads 'shut down the corpse industry,' at a rally calling for a truce-hostage deal, on Tel Aviv's Begin Street, outside the IDF headquarters, September 4, 2024. (Noam Lehmann/Times of Israel)
Protester Iftach Brill's sign reads 'shut down the corpse industry,' at a rally calling for a truce-hostage deal, on Tel Aviv's Begin Street, outside the IDF headquarters, September 4, 2024. (Noam Lehmann/Times of Israel)

The fourth consecutive day of protests for a hostage deal begins on Tel Aviv’s Begin Street, outside the IDF headquarters.

Organizers urge those present to rally anyone they can. Within an hour, the 200-odd crowd grows tenfold.

“The hostages are in Gaza for way too many days. The blood is on the hands of the government of blood,” they chant.

On Sunday, the IDF said it recovered six recently slain hostages from Gaza.

Some protesters carry printed signs with Netanyahu’s face over those of the six hostages, captioned: “They were murdered because of you.”

Iftach Brill, a protest regular, proudly wears a weathered yellow shirt indicating he is from the Gaza Border communities.

A native of Kibbutz Be’eri — among the hardest hit in Hamas’s October 7 onslaught — Brill says his parent’s home in Be’eri was destroyed on October 7, and they remain displaced.

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