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The photos at the link look like it’s dozens, not thousands, but perhaps somewhere there are photos that show more. [IsraelTimes] Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Thursday for a protest demanding an end to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
war and return of the hostages after Israel announced it had recalled its negotiators from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
where they’d been holding indirect talks with Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
The rally, which began with a moment of silence for fallen soldiers, a prayer for the safety of the troops and the release of the hostages, featured parents of hostages, parents of soldiers, and reservists demanding that the war — on its 657th day — finally come to a close.
"In the beginning, this was a just war. But after 22 months, this war no longer has a security purpose," declared Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Noam Tibon.
"The war has turned into a political war, and while the best of us are falling in Gaza, the October 7 Government — the government of the failure and neglect, is passing a disgraceful draft-evasion bill, weakening the IDF and playing politics on the backs of our fighters," he said, referring to efforts by the government to keep the coalition together by exempting ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from mandatory military service.
"Today, as the hostage negotiating team is again being recalled, we all already know and understand that the only way to bring all the hostages home is to make a deal to end the war," Tibon said, adding: "Everyone knows that it’s entirely possible and must happen in one go, without ’selections,'" — a reference to the partial deal being advanced by the government, which only envisions the initial release of roughly half of the remaining hostages.
What they demand is impossible. Why do they want to keep the government from actually accomplishing anything, to win the war and get the hostages back? While Hamas has offered to release all 50 remaining hostages in one batch in exchange for an end to the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the trade, arguing that it would leave Hamas in power.
If Hamas remains in power, they will do another 10/7, then another and anther until Israel surrenders — so they have promised. The only possibility for Israel is to defeat Hamas and drive them far away from Gaza. Hostage families have decried partial hostage deals, comparing the process to the "selections" Nazis made during the Holocaust, between Jews who would be kept alive for forced labor and Jews who would be sent straight to the gas chambers.
Oh grow up. At the end of the protest, demonstrators burned tires and blocked roads in two different parts of Tel Aviv.
Thick smoke could be seen near Begin Road and on King George Street before officers put out the flames. Demonstrators also sat in the road to block traffic before being forcibly cleared by police.
There were at least two arrests, according to Hebrew media. The Protest Detainee Legal Support Front, which confirmed one arrest, published footage of coppers yanking a man by his shirt out of a crowd of protesters near Begin Road.
24 ARREST AT ANTI-WAR PROTEST IN HAIFA
In Haifa, police arrested 24 protesters at a small anti-war demonstration held in the city’s German Colony.
Officers were filmed attempting to disperse the demonstrators while tearing up signs only a few minutes after the protest began.
Later on, officers started tackling protesters to the ground, handcuffing them and carrying them to a police van.
Police described the 24 detained protesters as rioters, saying they "did not respond to officers’ orders, held up signs and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza."
In a video from the site of the protest, one handcuffed demonstrator shouted to news hounds that officers had beaten several female protesters inside the van before she herself was pushed into a police car.
The protest was one of several anti-war demonstrations organized by Haifa’s Arab residents, which often see mass arrests.
A small number of left-wing Jewish Israelis also attend these demonstrations, which typically amount to a few dozen participants.
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