Over a thousand demonstrators are rallying tonight in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square against the ongoing war in Gaza.
“The people demand an end to the fighting!” chant protesters, many holding pictures of Hamas-held hostages, as well as Gazan children killed during the fighting.
Police earlier this week tried to hinge their approval for the protest on the condition that demonstrators refrain from displaying signs with hostages and Gazan children, but backtracked later the same day.
Rula Daoud, a protest organizer with the Jewish-Arab “Standing Together” movement, decries the police’s since-rescinded demand.
“They said it was forbidden for us to wave signs… the political police of [Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir are trying to censor criticism of the war and the government, and hurting freedom of expression,” she tells the crowd.
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