Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets across the occupied lands on the 36th week of demonstrations against the judicial reforms proposed by the far-right cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli protesters continue 36th week of rallies against Netanyahu’s far-right cabinet
10 Sep 2023 - 12:17
Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets across the occupied lands on the 36th week of demonstrations against the judicial reforms proposed by the far-right cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The protest rallies were held on Saturday ahead of a key decision by the regime’s Supreme Court over a legislation passed in the Knesset by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right cabinet, which stripped the court of some of its oversight powers.
In addition to the coastal city of Tel Aviv, where tens of thousands took to the streets, similar rallies were also held in dozens of other locations across the occupied territories, including Haifa, Beer Sheba, Modiin, Herzilya, the occupied city of al-Quds and some other cities.
The Israeli police closed a number of main roads in Tel Aviv after the demonstration started.
Some Israeli media reported that a number of demonstrators raised Palestinian flags.
In addition to the weekly protests, several thousand people also completed a three-day march in the northern part of the occupied territories in protest at the so-called overhaul scheme.
"This is the 36th weeks in a row that we are demonstrating against Netanyahu's attempts to make a coup…. This demonstration is three days before the deliberations in the Supreme Court to disable the law that they passed…. We are gonna demonstrate … on Monday … in front [of] the Supreme Court [in al-Quds] in our efforts to stop this horrible legislation," one protester was quoted by Reuters as saying.
"I am demonstrating … to make sure that there is a supremacy of … the Supreme Court. Right now, we have clowns and criminals [in the cabinet] … and I wanna make sure that they go away," another demonstrator said.
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