On Tuesday evening, Israeli police dispersed demonstrators, arrested some of them, and prevented a protest in Tel Aviv demanding an end to the war on the Gaza Strip.
The police attacked the demonstrators who were carrying banners demanding an end to the “massacre” taking place in Gaza, as they put it.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the Israeli police cordoned off the protest site, which the demonstrators had previously announced on social media.
Haaretz newspaper said that the Israeli police in Tel Aviv forcefully dispersed the demonstration and confiscated the banners, claiming that they “offended public feelings.”
Preventing the Haifa demonstration
In a related context, the Israeli police announced that they “will not allow the organization of a demonstration against the war on Gaza that was scheduled to be held on Saturday evening in Haifa (north),” according to the Israeli “Wala” website.
According to the same source, in a statement, the police attributed the reason for the refusal to the fact that the protest organizers “cannot control the identity of the demonstrators and participants,” which could cause what they described as “serious disturbances.”
The branch of the “Democratic Front for Peace and Equality” party (a left-wing Arab/Jewish alliance) in Haifa, and Israeli movements announced their intention to organize a Haifa demonstration to call for a “ceasefire, and the conclusion of an exchange deal that includes all for all (all Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli detainees in Gaza), And ending political persecution,” according to the Walla website.
During the past few weeks, calls have escalated in Israel demanding an end to the war on Gaza that has extended for more than 100 days without achieving its declared goals of eliminating the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and returning the Israeli detainees who are still in the Strip.
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that has left, to date, 24,285 martyrs and 61,154 injured, and caused the displacement of more than 85 percent (about 1.9 million people) of the Strip’s population, in addition to massive infrastructure destruction. Sanitary facilities, vital facilities and hospitals.