Forming a sea of blue and white Israeli flags, the protesters chanted “democracy” in a show of support for the Supreme Court which, on Tuesday, will convene its entire 15-judge bench for the first time in Israeli history.
The Israeli protesters have “gathered at 4,400 locations across the country,” Kobi Shabtai said in statements during an event at the Israeli Bar Association as cited by Haaretz newspaper.
Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets across the occupied lands for the 33rd consecutive week to voice anger against the policies of far-right cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to Israeli Public Broadcast Kan, the former officers warned Netanyahu and his cabinet that: “The retention of the authoritarian coup will lead in a very short time to turning the unity built with blood, sweat, tears, souls and dangers to an empty shell.”
Speaking to dozens of reservist pilots who say they will not show up for volunteer duty to protest the government's plans to overhaul the judiciary, Major- General Tomer Bar told them the readiness of the Force is "worsening", The Times of Israel daily reported.
"The vast majority of physicians know they will not be able to fulfill their oath to patients under a regime that does not accept the role of reason," AP reported Hagai Levine, chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health, saying.
Israeli doctors and reservists have staged protest as the Israeli parliament, Knesset, continues with approval of the key part of a much controversial judicial reform.
Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, said the approval of Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul by Knesset has led the Tel Aviv regime towards fragmentation and collapse.
Protests have erupted leading to clashes between the Israeli protesters against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul and the police as the Knesset approved key part of the plan.
The letter, signed by 1,142 reservists including hundreds of pilots, was the latest sign of opposition within the military to far-reaching judicial changes being pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition.
The doctors, including physicians and psychiatrists, penned a letter to the Military Medicine Club asking it to send an urgent message to the army leadership to update them on the doctors' action.
In a filmed interview posted on the Wall Street Journal website on Thursday, Netanyahu said he was no longer seeking to grant Parliament the authority to overturn Supreme Court rulings.
Beset by the domestic upheaval and expressions of concern and disapproval in Washington, Netanyahu on Monday paused the overhaul to allow negotiations on a compromise between his religious-nationalist coalition and opposition parties.