MADRID 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Israel’s main cities one more Saturday to ask the Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for an agreement with the Palestinian militias for the release of the hundred hostages held in Gaza for more than a year.
Once again, the largest concentration has been in Tel Aviv, where the Police have detained six protesters on the emblematic Begin Street after they refused to clear the road, reports the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.
The Police have used horses to charge against the protesters, who were chanting slogans against police intervention. During the protest a fire was started in an improvised bonfire.
One of the participants on the stand has appealed to the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump: “end this shitty war now,” said Omri Lifshitz, son of the freed hostage Yocheved Lofshitz.
The nephew of one of the dead hostages, Shahar Mor, has also addressed Trump. “Let the Gaza revenge campaign stop. We need our hostages to return. We are dying without them,” he noted. “The previous administration has failed miserably. You can do better,” he added.
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, several protesters stripped to their underwear on King George Street and showed inscriptions in Hebrew and Arabic denouncing the consequences of the cold in the Gaza Strip with phrases such as “In Gaza they are dying of cold.”
The bulk of the demonstration marched to Paris Square, next to Netanyahu’s official residence. There have been no arrests.