1000s demand Netanyahu’s ouster, saying he’s sabotaging truce
Thousands have protested across the occupied Palestinian territories, demanding the ouster of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom they denounced for sabotaging truce talks that could enable the return of the regime’s captives, who remain in the Gaza Strip.
The rallies were held on Saturday across Tel Aviv, the holy occupied city of al-Quds, the cities of Haifa and Caesarea in the northern part of the territories, and the central city of Be'er Sheva among other places.
The participants called for new elections and immediate conclusion of a deal aimed at releasing the captives.
Some 240 people were taken captive on October 7 last year during a historic operation staged against the occupied territories by Gaza’s resistance groups in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against Palestinians.
The regime responded with a genocidal war that has so far claimed the lives of more than 40,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
A week-long truce deal agreed in November saw the Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas releasing 105 captives in return for some 240 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
On July 2, the group agreed to a proposal for another truce that had been forwarded by the United States.
The regime, however, rejected the plan and later came up with new conditions, including keeping its forces inside Gaza along the coastal sliver’s border with Egypt.
The protesters, who had gathered in Tel Aviv, condemned the regime’s obstructive attitude in a statement, saying, "We tell US President [Joe Biden] that Netanyahu is deceiving you and doing the opposite of what he says. You should not trust him.”
The Israeli premier has vowed to keep up the war until, what he has called, Hamas’s “elimination.”
The demonstrators, however, dismissed the self-proclaimed goal, saying, “Netanyahu is systematically sabotaging the deal and acting according to political interests."
Observers say the Israeli premier is protracting the war to avoid the repercussions of the charges he has faced since 2019 of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
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