Angry Israeli protesters demand resignation of Netanyahu
Angry Israeli protesters have once again flooded the streets in different cities across the occupied territories demanding resignation of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his cabinet failed to reach an agreement that would secure release of the captives in Gaza.
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On Tuesday night, tens of thousands gathered in several cities including Rehovot, Hod Hasharon and Tel Aviv to denounce Netanyahu for systematically obstructing the ceasefire for his personal and political gains.
In some areas, protesters set fire and blocked streets prompting Israeli forces to clash with them.
They also slammed the new conditions for the Gaza truce which includes the regime’s control over areas such as the Netzarim Corridor as well as the Rafah crossing.
Demonstrators vowed to continue their protests until all captives were released.
Netanyahu is in hot water over his handling of the Gaza war and reluctance to a ceasefire.
On Sunday night, hundreds of thousands of protesters set off flares on major roads and blocked a main highway in Tel Aviv while chanting slogans.
They called on Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas after the Israeli military found the bodies of six captives held in the besieged Palestinian territory.
The demonstration was the biggest anti-Netanyahu protest since the onset of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
More than 100 Israeli and foreign captives are still in Gaza. Around a third of them, however, are known to have died in the regime's strikes, with the fate of others still unknown.
On Monday, the military wing of the Hamas resistance movement warned that more Israelis will be killed if the regime keeps using military means to release them from captivity in the Gaza Strip.
“Military pressure equals death and failure. An exchange deal equals freedom and life,” read the caption of a poster published on Monday by the al-Qassam Brigades.
The poster depicted a resistance fighter holding a handgun bearing the logo of the al-Qassam Brigades' Shadow Unit, and an Israeli soldier in the background sitting in a tunnel with his head bowed down.
Netanyahu and the Israeli military “intentionally hindered” a prisoner swap and thus they are “fully responsible” for the death of Israeli captives, said Abu Obeida, spokesman for the al-Qassam Brigades.
The remarks came days after the occupation’s military found the bodies of six captives in a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Hamas said they were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
The death of the six captives ignited fury among Israelis who have for months denounced Netanyahu’s policy of torpedoing a deal with Hamas in favor of his political interests.
