Interesting that they don’t quantify even a suggestion of how many thousands…
[IsraelTimes] Weekly demonstrations come as Netanyahu says Israel to negotiate for all captives after Hamas okayed phased deal, even as Gaza City takeover still loomsThousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv and across Israel on Saturday night in weekly protests calling on the government to make a deal with the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...terror group for a hostage release deal and ceasefire in the Gazoo Strip, while thousands more gathered for a separate Jewish-Arab anti-war protest.
The demonstrations came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had issued instructions for negotiations to be held for the return of all 50 hostages, even as he moved toward approving plans for a military offensive aimed at conquering Gaza City.
Previously the protesters demanded that all the hostages would be released at once, with no preference for those in greatest distress. Now that Bibi also demands that, the protesters have moved the goalposts yet again.
Hamas said last week it had agreed to a proposed deal, which would see the release of 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 slain hostages during a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, as well as the release of hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners. During the ceasefire, Israel and Hamas would hold negotiations for the return of all remaining hostages and a permanent end to the war.Netanyahu has indicated in recent weeks, however, that he would only support a comprehensive deal, rather than a phased, partial agreement, and only if the terms meet all his conditions, including the disarmament of Hamas, the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, and the transfer of governance to a body that is not Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.
SEPARATE ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST
As happens every week, a separate protest — this one explicitly anti-government — was held nearby, on Begin Road.
After the speeches ended, protesters gathered around a group of drummers and lit a bonfire. It burned for a few minutes before police entered the crowd with a fire extinguisher and quickly put out the blaze.
Minutes later, protesters lit another fire while continuing to chant for a hostage deal. It was soon extinguished by the cops as well.
As the flames fizzled out on the pavement, Zahiro Mor, the nephew of slain hostage Avraham Munder, gave an impromptu speech, telling protesters that “we are now seeing not an attempt, but the active torpedoing [of hostage deal negotiations].”
“We will do everything to prevent this!” he declared. “Starting tomorrow and continuing throughout the entire week, there will be tons of demonstrations… the important thing is that we get out onto the streets and finally voice our fucking rage!”
Go fuck your rage in private like decent people, and stop scandalizing children in the streets.
In addition to the main protests in Tel Aviv, demonstrators gathered in Jerusalem, Haifa, and other major cities across Israel, as well as at highway junctions across the country, to call for a hostage deal.Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023, and the body of one soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.
Of the 50, 20 are believed to be alive, and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others. The remaining 28 have been confirmed dead by the military.
‘STOP KILLING CHILDREN’: ARAB-LED PROTESTERS DECRY ‘GENOCIDE’
A separate anti-war protest, led by an Arab civil society group in partnership with human rights organizations, was held in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square earlier in the day on Saturday, drawing thousands of participants.
Demonstrators, some of whom wore keffiyehs and held signs accusing Israel of committing genocide and starvation in the Strip, chanted: “From Gaza to Jenin — stop killing children,” and “Gaza, Gaza, don’t despair, we will end the occupation.”
The protest was organized by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, the leading umbrella organization representing the country’s Arab minority, together with the Partnership for Peace movement and a coalition of human rights groups.
Police on Thursday threatened to revoke the permit for the protest and a march that was planned alongside it, citing “the excess of events” the police already had to cover,” and demanded attendance be capped at 500 people rather than 5,000.
Following the cancellation of the permit, committee chair Mohammad Barakeh accused authorities of trying to silence Arab opposition to the war.
The demonstration featured the participation of all four Arab-majority parties — Hadash, Ta’al, Balad, and Ra’am,
…Ra’am is the political party of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel…
who are currently engaged in ongoing discussions over reviving the Joint List alliance.Joint List was originally a paid project of the Barack Obama State Department, intended to aid the State Department’s Victory15 project which trained paid leftwing activists to protest and push Bibi Netanyahu out of office. It failed abysmally, but a great deal of fun was had by all. The same leftwing activists have been leading anti-Bibi protests ever since, funded by various US government and private initiatives. One would think they would tire of failing year after year, so it must be lucrative...
Hadash-Ta’al MK Aida Touma-Sliman took to X to share images of the anti-war protest, writing: “Here at Habima Square, despite attempts to silence and subjugate us, thousands of voices are crying out: End the war of destruction and starvation immediately!”“The establishment can revoke permits, but the moral stand for life, justice and equality doesn’t need a permit, it only demands that you be a human being,” she wrote.
Not a very big crowd:
I came back home from the demonstration organized by the High Follow Up Committee of the Arabs and the Partnership for Peace. Still moved deeply by the thousands who came, Jews and Palestinian Arabs, citizens who brought their demand to stop the genocide and starvation policy and… pic.twitter.com/iAbEUkH7Bd
— MK Aida Touma-Sliman (@AidaTuma) August 23, 2025
While the demonstration passed mostly without incident, a woman was arrested for suspected incitement as the protest was dispersing,
The 61-year-old protester was detained after she was heard leading a group in chanting: “With our soul and blood, we will redeem you, Gaza.”
Police say she expressed “inflammatory remarks, contrary to the law.”
The officers shut down the demonstration soon after the protesters started to thin out.
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