A recycling bin and a car are heavily damaged after the bin was set alight in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Israel Police)
Advocates for the hostages in Gaza are holding protests as part of a “Day of disruption” intended to raise awareness for the 48 abductees’ plight and call for an end to the war and a deal that returns them all.
Activists have set several recycling bins alight near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem.
Police say in a statement that bins and tires were torched, damaging several cars in the Rehavia and Givat Ram neighborhoods. They add that several residents were evacuated from nearby buildings, though nobody was hurt. They say fire and rescue teams have put out the fires, and stress that lighting fires in public places illegally is “irresponsible” and could endanger the public.
Elsewhere in the capital, dozens of demonstrators, including from the Brothers and Sisters in Arms group, gather outside the home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, accusing him of failing to secure the return in a deal of a single captive since becoming the chief Israeli negotiator on the matter.
Protesters call for a hostage deal outside the home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Tanya Zion-Waldoks/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
“Complete failure,” the protesters say in a statement, accusing the government of capitulating to its far-right flank and “torpedoing” a proposal for a ceasefire-hostage deal accepted by Hamas weeks ago and that Israel hasn’t responded to, despite mediators saying it is almost identical to an outline previously accepted by Jerusalem.
A convoy of vehicles has also set out from Latrun toward Jerusalem to call for the captives’ release.
A women’s protest group calls for an end to the war and a hostage deal, at the entrance to Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Adar Eyal/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
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