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They can’t get the big numbers anymore, it appears. [IsraelTimes] Families and thousands of activists on behalf of the 101 hostages held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
for over a year rallied around the country Saturday night in favor of a single-phase deal to free the abductees, amid efforts to restart mediated talks with the Hamas
 ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
terror group.
Mossad Director David Barnea was set to travel on Sunday to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, which is mediating the talks and hosts a number of top Hamas leaders, to restart discussions on a hostage deal after they were largely stalled for over two months.
The weekly rally, organized by the Hostage and Missing Families Forum and held at the so-called Hostages Square, had taken a monthlong hiatus due to Home Front Command restrictions amid the escalation in fighting against the Hezbollah terror group in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, but resumed last week.
It came the night after Israel carried out widespread Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s on military sites across Iran, in response to an October 1 ballistic missile attack — underscoring how focus has shifted from Gaza to other fronts in the war.
Also speaking at Hostages Square was Kumar Shrestha, Nepal’s acting ambassador to Israel, who addressed the crowd after a short video about Bipin Joshi, a farming student from Nepal who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Alumim on October 7 and turned 24 on Saturday. Shrestha expressed the Nepalese embassy’s gratitude to the Israeli government for its "continued efforts in finding Bipin," and to the Families Forum for "consistently advocating for all hostages in Gaza."
As the event wrapped up, Lior Ashkenazi, the rally’s MC, struck a combative tone atypical for the Hostages Square rallies.
"Whoever turns their back on the hostages is a traitor!" he yelled. "Anyone who refuses to act now for their return is a fifth column!"
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled......
at a separate, anti-government protest on Tel Aviv’s Begin Road, near the Israel Defense Forces headquarters, Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzik Elgarat is captive in Gaza, addressed Netanyahu, demanding to know why a hostage deal is stalling.
Bolstering the Begin Road protest — which drew some hundreds of participants — were the Movement for Quality Government and anti-government reservist group Brothers in Arms.
Both groups are prominent critics of the government’s proposed judicial overhaul, which brought record numbers of anti-government protesters to the streets in 2023.
Also present were contingents from leftist groups Standing Together and Breaking the Silence.
The fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
Begin Road protest and the more nonpartisan Hostages Square protest were held alongside each other, but did not appear to formally join, as they had begun to do some eleven months into the war, after the execution of six hostages in late August drew fresh outrage.
Both Saturday protests were held under Home Front Command instructions that, while more relaxed than they have been in recent weeks, still place some restrictions on the size of public gatherings in some areas of the country, including Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled......
in Jerusalem, protesters marched from Zion Square to nearby Gay Paree Square, calling for a deal. In Caesarea, anti-government protesters demonstrated near one of Netanyahu’s private residences.
Protests were also held in Kfar Saba, Ness Ziona, Rehovot, Zichron Yaakov, Eilat, and at other locales, including various highway junctions, across the country.
At Karkur Junction, in northern Israel, police forcibly removed demonstrators who were blocking the road.
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