Israeli settlers hold anti-Netanyahu protest rally
Thousands of settlers have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv to hold a protest rally against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called for his dismissal from power.
According to Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik, protesters late on Saturday called for the resignation of Netanyahu’s cabinet members and holding snap elections in the occupied territories.
The rally-goers also called for the cessation of the Gaza war and an immediate action to bring back Israeli captives who are in the hands of Palestinian fighters since October 7, 2023, Sputnik reported.
Some Israeli media outlets also wrote that the Tel Aviv demonstration turned violent with police forces’ intervention.
Earlier on Saturday night, hundreds of Israeli settlers poured onto streets in the city of Haifa to call on Netanyahu to step down.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas had declared that they will not release Israeli captives until the end of aggression in the Gaza Strip, and that the Israeli regime will not be able to free the captives through mere negotiations.
On October 7, the regime kicked off onslaught in the Gaza Strip in a bid to uproot Palestinian resistance groups, but following its failures on the battleground it turned into negotiations with those groups. However, the Israeli regime’s excessive demands led the talks to another failure.