Israel: 120,000 demonstrators to demand end to war, record since October 7

This is the largest rally since October 7, when Hamas attacked Israel. Almost 120,000 individuals took to the streets yesterday, Saturday, June 1, to demand that their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seize the pole held out by Washington and put an end to the war. They accused Netanyahu of causing chaos in the region and aggravating the Jewish state’s problems even though he had pledged to secure the country…

Remember that the United States had revealed a plan the day before to “finalize” a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and since then the American president has been pushing both parties to sign this text to stop the suffering. Protesters called on Biden to put even more pressure on the Israeli government to silence the guns and negotiate the return of the hostages.

According to the Reuters news agency, the police had to employ water cannons and mounted police officers to attempt to break up the demonstration. “An agreement on the hostages now,” demanded a demonstrator dressed as the Statue of Liberty, amid a sea of ​​Israeli flags, reports HuffPost. The protesters argue that their prime minister is more concerned about his “power” than the fate of the hostages.

Remark that after Biden’s announcement, hailed by Europeans and Arab countries, Netanyahu threw everything into disarray by putting Israel’s “conditions” back on the table, according to him: “the destruction of military and government of Hamas. This means that there is no question of regarding a lasting end to the fighting. Recall that the Minister of Defense stated it would take another 7 months to completely uproot Hamas in Gaza.

The Forum of Families of Hostages and the Missing said it would “demand that the Israeli government immediately approve the agreement to release the hostages and bring all the hostages home immediately (…). We will also request all government ministers and coalition members to publicly commit to supporting the agreement and not allowing the possibility of torpedoing it and endangering the hostages,” added the NGO.

On the same day, two far-right Israeli ministers menaced to abandon the government if Netanyahu validated the agreement proposed by Biden. In messages posted on of Israel”…

Bezalel Smotrich, the Minister of Finance, even affirmed that he “will not take part in a government which accepts the proposed plan”. To which opposition leader Yair Lapid replied that he would support the government if the Prime Minister signed the peace plan presented by Washington, reports the BBC.

Note that on the other side, things are also stuck, in fact, Hamas certainly states that it welcomes the US road map “positively” but it also reiterated its initial demands: a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip to sign the agreement. Conditions that Israel had rejected in the past and which it still categorically refuses…