Thousands of people demand an agreement to release the hostages and new elections outside Netanyahu’s house

June 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Some 2,000 people gathered outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in the city of Caesarea on Thursday to demand a deal to bring back hostages still held in the Gaza Strip, while thousands more in Tel Aviv called for early elections.

‘How much more blood will be shed until he leaves?’ are some of the slogans that were seen this Thursday in the demonstrations against Prime Minister Netanyahu, and that have been repeated regularly throughout Israel, even more so after do not advance an agreement to release the hostages.

In Tel Aviv, thousands more people, according to the Ynet website, demonstrated around Netanyahu’s official residence, under the same slogans: reaching an agreement and early elections.

Israel and Hamas reached a brief agreement late last year to release a small part of the 240 hostages who were taken by the Islamists during the October 7 attacks in exchange for doing the same for the Palestinians who remain imprisoned and a ceasefire that has not yet been achieved.

Since then, numerous meetings have been organised with the participation of countries in the region, with tours by political leaders to try to reach an agreement, amidst reproaches directed at each other for the lack of success of these initiatives.

The latest proposal on the table was put forward by US President Joe Biden, who outlined a timetable for an end to hostilities, the release of prisoners and hostages, and a political restructuring of the Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, protests by ultra-Orthodox groups also continue, after the Supreme Court confirmed this week that there is no legal basis for them to avoid military service, after decades avoiding recruitment as students of the ‘yeshiva’, the center Torah and Talmud studies

Police have managed to unblock Highway 4, one of Israel’s main thoroughfares, after driving out protesters. Authorities have reported arresting more than 30 people for crimes against authority and rioting, The Times of Israel reports.