WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Tens of thousands of people protested in several areas in the Israeli-occupied, demanding a captive swap deal with Palestinian factions and dismissal of the regime led by Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, Anadolu news agency reported.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that thousands in Tel Aviv, Netanya, Haifa and the Qiryat Tivon junction demanded the release of captives in Gaza, the holding of early elections and the dismissal of the cabinet.
Israeli army radio also reported that tens of thousands demonstrated in Kaplan Square in central Tel Aviv to demand the regime conclude an immediate captive swap deal with Palestinian factions.
Several protesters closed a section of Ayalon Street in central Tel Aviv, which police later reopened using force, according to the occupying regime’s broadcasting authority.
Nearly 37,300 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and more than 85,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.
Over eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.
The Zionist regime stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which in its latest ruling has ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its aggression in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on 6 May.