Hundreds of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in cities around the nation on Sunday, in what appeared to be the largest protests since the October 7 attacks.
| Israel’s largest labour group is poised for a nationwide strike on Monday, the strongest push yet to force the government into a Gaza ceasefire and secure the release of hostages held by Hamas.
Mr Netanyahu has “been driven primarily by a desire to retain power with a narrow, very radical messianic coalition in the Israeli government”, said Jonathan Dekel-Chen, father of hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, a 36-year-old Israeli-American.Despite the pressure, there was no sign Mr Netanyahu was prepared to shift course. “Those who murder hostages do not want a deal,” he said.
Mr Netanyahu has defended his conditions as necessary to ensure that Hamas does not use a truce to rearm, regroup and resist the Israeli campaign to destroy it. Should Hamas endure, government officials have warned that would spell more hostage-taking in the future. On Sunday, Histadrut, the labour group representing the majority of Israel’s trade unionists, declared a nationwide strike beginning on Monday morning. The action would include Ben-Gurion International, Israel’s main airport.“It is no longer possible to stand idly by,” Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David said. “This thing – of Jews being murdered in the tunnels of Gaza – is unconscionable, and it has to stop. A deal must be reached, and a deal is more important than anything else.
“For 11 months, the Israeli government led by Netanyahu failed to do what a government is expected to do – bring its sons and daughters home,” the Hostage Families Forum posted on X.
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