Organizers of the main demonstration in Tel Aviv said over 80,000 people had attended, but that figure could not be confirmed. Protests were also held in other locations including Jerusalem, Haifa, Caesarea and Rehovot.
Eyal Eshel, the father of Roni Eshel, an IDF field observer who was killed on October 7, spoke at the rally in Tel Aviv, days after the families of kidnapped observers released footage of their daughters’ capture.
“The terrible videos from the capture of the soldiers in Nahal Oz emphasize the failures that were built up layer by layer,” he said. “Netanyahu, you were warned and you ignored. Only because of that, you must take responsibility and resign immediately. You are not worthy of Roni, you are not worthy of the girls who were murdered, you are not worthy of this wonderful people.”
Eshel’s claim that Netanyahu was “warned” appeared to refer to this past week’s confirmation by the military that it had warned the premier four times last year of how Hamas viewed the societal chasm prompted by the hardline government’s judicial overhaul legislation. READ MORE
