Security cabinet meets in Tel Aviv as anti-government activists protest outside IDF headquarters

The security cabinet is meeting in Tel Aviv, as anti-government activists and relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Tel Aviv protest outside the IDF’s Kirya headquarters.

The meeting comes amid reports of skepticism in progress in talks to secure a hostage-ceasefire deal and after an attack this morning in which a Jordanian killed three Israelis at the Allenby Crossing at the Israel-Jordan border.

The protesters are demanding that the cabinet work to “secure a deal to bring back all hostages – the living for rehabilitation, and the murdered and fallen for proper burial.”

It is believed that 97 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Protesters gather on Tel Aviv’s Begin Street near the IDF headquarters to call for a deal to free hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, September 8, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Movement/Danor Aharon)

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