AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime on Monday was pressing ahead with a contentious plan to overhaul the regime’s legal system, despite an unprecedented uproar that has included mass protests, warnings from military and business leaders.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the parliament, or Knesset, for a second straight week to rally against the plan as lawmakers prepared to hold an initial vote.
The proposed controversial reforms would give politicians greater power to appoint judges and more control of appointments to the supreme court bench.
Many protesters carried posters, decrying the purported reforms.
The demonstrators blocked major highways and interchanges, including the road by Ben-Gurion Airport, Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv and other locations.
Major protests were planned by organizations across various sectors, including military reservists, and healthcare professionals.
Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the home of Likud MK Tally Gotliv in the central city of Givat Shmuel and taped themselves to her building.
Zionist troops arrested two of the protesters, who were blocking the door to Gotliv’s apartment.
In Ashkelon, demonstrators gathered outside the home of Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter.
More protesters were arrested as a group gathered outside education minister Yoav Kisch’s home in Ramat Gan and glued themselves down in the hallway.
By noon, thousands of citizens carrying STOP signs streamed toward parliament to protest the vote.
The Monday rallies came after last week, thousands of people demonstrated outside the regime’s parliament, Knesset, as a committee granted initial approval to the plan.
Trainloads of protesters arrived in Al-Quds on packed trains. It was the largest protest in the city in years.
In another development, the Zionist regime has informed the United States that it won’t approve new settlements in the occupied West Bank “in the coming months,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on Monday.
On Feb. 12, the regime’s far-right coalition rulers legalized nine settler outposts that have been built without permits by granting them retroactive authorization. The move drew sharp condemnations from the Palestinians and world powers.
According to the statement issued by Netanyahu’s office, the regime has informed the United States that no new settlements will be authorized beyond the nine settlements that have already been approved. The office did not elaborate on a specific timeframe.
Outposts are settlements built by Zionist settlers without official permits from regime authorities and are deemed illegal.