Israel-Gaza War: Protests outside Israeli PM Netanyahu's residence, demands for 'bring hostages home now' grow louder
Reuters. Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! Hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel on October 7, killed over 1,400 people and took more than 240 hostage.
Israeli PM Netanyahu has not accepted personal responsibility so far for the failures of the government under whose reign such surprise assault took place. Protestors waved blue and white Israeli flags and raised the slogans, "Jail now!", a large crowd in hundreds pushed through police barriers as police tried to hold them back at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem. Many families of the hostages held in Gaza are critical of the government's response to the situation.
Public fury and anger is growing among the citizens and are calling for their relatives to be brought home who are held as captives by Hamas group. Thousands of protestors demonstrated in Tel Aviv, waved flags and held photographs of some of the captives in Gaza. They also raised slogans like "Release the hostages now at all costs" and brought with them posters delivering the same message while crowds chanted, “bring them home now." One of the protestor Ofri Bibas-Levy, whose brother, along with his four-year-old son Ariel and 10-month-old son Kfir were taken hostage by Hamas said she came to show support for her family, reported Reuters.
Bibas-Levy said, "We don't know where they are, we don't know what condition they are kept in. I don't know if Kfir is getting food, I don't know if Ariel is getting enough food. He is a very small baby." Israel has launched an intense air and ground offensive in Gaza since the initial Hamas attack, killing over 9,000 people according to health
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