{"id":75210,"date":"2024-06-18T00:52:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/israeli-protesters-mass-in-jerusalem-to-call-for-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T00:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:52:04","slug":"israeli-protesters-mass-in-jerusalem-to-call-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/israeli-protesters-mass-in-jerusalem-to-call-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Protesters Mass in Jerusalem to Call for Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/17\/multimedia\/17mideast-crisis-protests-01-qwmc\/17mideast-crisis-protests-01-qwmc-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Israeli Protesters Mass in Jerusalem to Call for Elections\" title=\"Israeli Protesters Mass in Jerusalem to Call for Elections\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Jerusalem on Monday to call for elections and the immediate return of hostages held in Gaza in a demonstration that followed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s recent decision to dissolve his war cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The protest outside the Knesset, Israel\u2019s Parliament, highlighted the competing pressures the Israeli prime minister is under from conflicting elements of Israeli society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last week, two relatively moderate members resigned from the emergency war cabinet Mr. Netanyahu formed in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led assault on Israel, citing differences over the conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza. Far-right members of Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s coalition called on him to appoint them to the war cabinet, but on Sunday, according to Israeli officials, the prime minister communicated to ministers at a wider cabinet meeting that he was dissolving the body instead.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the crowd in front of the Knesset on Monday was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lirishavit\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Yair Lapid, the opposition leader in Parliament<\/a>, video posted on social media showed. Some of the marchers carried a banner stating that they were \u201cleading the nation to the day after,\u201d a reference to the end of the war in Gaza. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An Israeli police statement said that the police had helped facilitate the rally near the Knesset, and no arrests were immediately reported there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However, confrontations appear to have been more intense when some protesters broke off to march to Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s home in Jerusalem, breaching a police roadblock.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>Anti-government activists have regularly gathered there throughout the war. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The activists chanted, \u201cYou are the chief, you are to blame\u201d in front of the prime minister\u2019s residence. Photographs showed some of them gathered around an open fire. Water cannons were fired, and at least nine people were arrested. The Israeli police said in a statement that some of the protesters had attacked officers, slightly injuring some of them. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israel Police said it would \u201ccontinue to allow legal freedom of expression and protest but will not allow violations of public order and riots,\u201d noting the fire. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The protests this week by anti-government activists are not connected to Saturday night rallies held weekly in Tel-Aviv and organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents the relatives of hostages held in Gaza.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>That group held a separate conference in Sderot on Monday on their efforts to bring the hostages home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The anti-government activists are planning another protest in front of the Knesset on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/17\/world\/middleeast\/israel-protests-government.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Jerusalem on Monday to call for elections and the immediate return of hostages held in Gaza in a demonstration that followed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s recent decision to dissolve his war cabinet. The protest outside the Knesset, Israel\u2019s Parliament, highlighted the competing pressures the Israeli prime minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/17\/multimedia\/17mideast-crisis-protests-01-qwmc\/17mideast-crisis-protests-01-qwmc-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[875,67,1178,22134,7609,2403],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75212,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75210\/revisions\/75212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}