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2024-12-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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‘Get them out of that hell’: Israelis protest across the country, demand hostage deal
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It sounds like the protests are very tiny, indeed, a good sign. [IsraelTimes] Hostage’s father urges Trump to pressure PM to sign agreement: ‘Netanyahu is trying to deceive you’; opposition figures lead rally against ‘toxic’ government.
Thousands of people attended pro-hostage deal rallies and anti-government protests across the country Saturday night, the fourth night of Hanukkah, days after Israel and Hamas once again accused each other of derailing negotiations for a deal to release the captives held by Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in Gaza.
The families of several hostages delivered remarks at a press conference in Tel Aviv before the rallies kicked off.
Yehuda Cohen, the father of hostage Nimrod Cohen, claimed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was trying to “deceive” US President-elect Donald Trump into believing that he was truly interested in reaching a deal with Hamas.
“Dear President Trump, Netanyahu is trying to deceive you. Ending the war and returning all the hostages is in the interest of the State of Israel,” Cohen said. “You might be the last person who is able put pressure on Netanyahu. Do not compromise on a partial deal that will become a death sentence for the remaining hostages and will not bring about an end to the war.”
“The talk from Netanyahu and the defense minister about continuing the war and maintaining military control of Gaza serves the extremists in government and is contrary to Israeli interests,” he added.
Saturday night also saw the Prime Minister’s Office deny a report by Channel 12 that Israel and Hamas could agree to a “limited” hostage deal as a gesture of goodwill ahead of the start of Trump’s second term in office. The report claimed both sides are interested in reaching a smaller deal in time for Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
In a short statement, the PMO called the report “a complete lie.” A senior Arab diplomat also denied the report to The Times of Israel.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum’s rally in Tel Aviv Saturday night was kicked off by former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, who was released last November and whose husband Oded remains in captivity. Lifshitz lit the Hanukkah candles at the start of the rally with her son Yizhar.
The Forum has assailed Netanyahu for apparently aiming to reach a deal that would initially release only so-called humanitarian cases — female, elderly or sickly hostages.
“After 14 months, they’re all humanitarian,” the Forum said Thursday in an announcement of its weekend rallies and warning that the hostages may not survive the coming winter.
Utter nonsense and selfish besides. It should be fairly easy to prioritize those weakest and least likely to survive, and those most likely to be tormented, And so, it seems, PM Netanyahu’s team has done. A block away from the Hostages Square rally, anti-government activists and some hostages’ families and their supporters protested in front of the Begin Road entrance to IDF Headquarters.
That protest was bolstered by demonstrators from an earlier nearby event against the return of the government’s judicial overhaul.
So it's not about the hostages...
The anti-overhaul protest, organized by the Free in our Homeland movement, started with a march from Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to the junction, also known by activists as Democracy Square. At the protest, Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats party, vowed to topple the government and replace it with “loyalists of Zionism and democracy.”
Golan, a former general who leads a merger of the left-wing Labor and Meretz parties, praised the audience for showing up week after week to protest against “this horrible government.”
Protesters also gathered in other cities across Israel, including Haifa, Herzliya, Rehovot, and Jerusalem.
On Saturday morning, police arrested five people who had protested for a hostage deal outside Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem, according to the Detainee Support Group, a team of lawyers who volunteer on behalf of detained anti-government protesters.
Channel 12 reported that the protesters were detained on their way back from the two-dozen-strong, 20-minute demonstration. According to the report, police followed the group and accused them of violating noise laws. The protesters were interrogated and later released.
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