Clashes broke out between police and anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv after around 200 people tried to block traffic on Kaplan Street. According to Haaretz, officers tried to forcibly remove the protesters, and some of them were arrested. Times of Israel published a video of police on horseback breaking up the protest. The clashes broke out after some of the protesters who had gathered in Habima Square spilled onto the adjacent Kaplan Street and blocked traffic.
Netanyahu on TV: “I found Mein Kampf in Arabic in Gaza, that’s how they raise children”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows on television an Arabic copy of Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” found in Gaza: This is how “the new Nazis” are raising their children, he said at a press conference, the Times of Israel reports.
“We will never forgive what Hamas did to our children,” “there is no alternative to complete victory,” he said. On October 7, “they would have massacred us all if they could,” if we don’t destroy Hamas, “the next massacre is only a matter of time.”
Netanyahu described South Africa's request to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to charge Israel with genocide as “outrageous.” The fact that the court agreed with his ruling “proves that many people around the world have not learned the lessons of the Holocaust.” “We have learned it,” he emphasized, “the most important lesson is that we will defend ourselves.”
Netanyahu then accused the families of the hostages of “reinforcing Hamas’s demands” by demonstrating for the release of their relatives. “I understand that you can't control your emotions, but it doesn't help and as far as I know it only serves to strengthen Hamas' demands,” the Israeli prime minister said again at a press conference this evening, referring to the Hamas protests relatives of the hostages. “There is no need to encourage me, I struggle with it all the time. It doesn't help,” he added, as thousands demonstrated in Tel Aviv for the release of the hostages.
Hostage families protest in front of Netanyahu's house
Dozens of people, including many family members of hostages, protested outside the Israeli prime minister's private residence in Caesarea. As the Times of Israel reported, protesters showed photos of the 136 abductees still in Gaza and chanted the slogan: “Bring them home now!”
Netanyahu should think about “repairing the mistakes of October 7th” instead of “insulting the relatives of the victims,” the Netanyahu Hostage Families Forum responded to the demonstrations.
“The families are meeting with world leaders, leading efforts to deliver medicine to the hostages, bringing the president of the International Criminal Court to Israel, and mobilizing the media and key influencers in support of Israel and the hostages,” the forum said, quoted from the times of Israel.
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