Thousands of Israelis take to the streets one more Saturday to demand an agreement to release hostages

MADRID Dec. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the center of cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem again this Saturday to demand that the Government reach an agreement for the release of Israeli hostages held by Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip.

The most important concentration was in Tel Aviv, where protesters gathered on Kaplan Street. There, the leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, has promised to end the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“There will be no concessions. We are not going to give in. We are not going to give up and we will never enter the Government,” Lapid stressed in a barb launched against his former ally and now minister without portfolio Benny Gantz. Lapid has assured that the Government clings to power because it knows it would lose the elections.

After Lapid’s intervention, the attendees joined the hundreds of protesters who had gathered on Begin Street, next to the headquarters of the Israeli Armed Forces, to demand an agreement for the hostages.

There has also been a rally in Nir Oz and Beeri, two of the communities most affected by the offensive of the Gazan militias on October 7, or in Carmei Gat, in central Israel, where Avital Dekel Chen, participated in the event. wife of Sagui Dekel Chen, one of the hostages.

“How is it possible that my daughters, who are fulfilling their obligations as best as possible in the midst of this madness, have in response a State that violates all of its commitments to them, including the most basic obligations to protect their well-being?” stated Avital Dekel Chen, according to ‘The Times of Israel’. “The State chooses not to bring them back home,” he stressed.