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The Israeli public mood is turning decisively against the rule of Benjamin Netanyahu following the recovery of six dead hostages.
The Israeli public mood is turning decisively against the rule of Benjamin Netanyahu following the recovery of six dead hostages.
Israel claims the hostages were shot execution-style by Hamas fighters as their troops closed to rescue them. Hamas says they were killed by Israeli bombardments. Israeli media report that autopsies show bullet wounds. But given the torrent of lies put out by Israeli authorities about the Gaza violence one may never know.
For the Israeli public, those grim details don’t seem to matter now. The anger is because the hostages could have been spared if Netanyahu engaged in ceasefire talks to prioritize the rescue of captives.
After 11 months of genocidal war on Gaza and the West Bank, Israeli exasperation with Netanyahu’s failure to get hostages home has reached boiling point.
At the weekend, Tel Aviv and other cities saw their largest protests against Netanyahu’s uncompromising policy of “defeating Hamas”. The country’s biggest labor union has called for a general strike to force an immediate ceasefire in order to secure the release of nearly 100 hostages.
“We getting body bags instead of a [ceasefire] deal,” said Arnon Bar-David, the head of Israel’s trade union Histadrut as up to 500,000 protesters closed down transport routes into Tel Aviv and other cities Sunday.
Private businesses and public services are also voicing support for a state-wide walk-out. Israel’s economy is on the verge of collapse from the nearly year-long war on Gaza and neighboring countries.
Angry families of hostages and a large public support movement accused Netanyahu of “playing Russian roulette” with the lives of those held captive in Gaza by Palestinian resistance Hamas.
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