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Protesters go on strike in Israel demanding ceasefire and launch of Gaza hostages

By Editorial Board Published August 17, 2025 5 Min Read
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Protesters go on strike in Israel demanding ceasefire and launch of Gaza hostages

Greater than 30 folks have been arrested in Israel for “disruption of order” as households of hostages held in Gaza step up their marketing campaign with a nationwide strike.

Protestors are demanding the Israel authorities make a deal to safe the discharge of hostages held by militants in Gaza.

The marketing campaign escalated on Sunday, with demonstrators staging a “day of stoppage” that blocked site visitors and closed companies.

Protesters gathered at dozens of factors all through Israel, together with outdoors politicians’ properties, army headquarters and on main highways, the place they have been sprayed with water cannons as they blocked lanes and lit bonfires that cloaked roads in smoke.

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Police stated they’d arrested 32 folks as a part of the nationwide demonstration – one of many fiercest because the uproar over six hostages discovered lifeless in Gaza final September.

The motion comes weeks after militant teams launched movies of hostages and Israel signalled plans for a brand new Gaza offensive.

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Protesters worry additional preventing might endanger the 50 hostages believed to stay in Gaza, solely about 20 of whom are regarded as alive.

The demonstrators chanted: “We don’t win a war over the bodies of hostages.”

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“Military pressure doesn’t bring hostages back – it only kills them,” former hostage Arbel Yehoud stated at an illustration in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Sq..

“The only way to bring them back is through a deal, all at once, without games.”

Anat Angrest, mom of hostage Matan Angrest, added: “Today, we stop everything to save and bring back the hostages and soldiers.

“At present, we cease all the things to recollect the supreme worth of the sanctity of life.

“Today, we stop everything to join hands – right, left, centre and everything in between.”

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded the rapid launch of the hostages however is haunted by the potential for mutiny inside his coalition.

Far-right members of his cupboard insist they will not assist any deal that permits Hamas to retain energy. The final time Israel agreed to a ceasefire that launched hostages, they threatened to topple Mr Netanyahu’s authorities.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich branded the stoppage “a bad and harmful campaign that plays into Hamas’ hands, buries the hostages in the tunnels and attempts to get Israel to surrender to its enemies and jeopardise its security and future”.

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Remaining hospitals in Gaza overwhelmed with malnutrition instances

Israel is presently getting ready for an invasion of Gaza Metropolis and different populated elements of the besieged strip, geared toward destroying Hamas.

The army physique that coordinates its humanitarian support to Gaza stated that the provision of tents to the territory would resume.

Coordinator of Authorities Actions within the Territories (COGAT) stated it could permit the United Nations to renew importing tents and shelter gear into Gaza forward of plans to forcibly evacuate folks from fight zones “for their protection”.

In the meantime in Gaza, the well being ministry stated two kids died on Sunday on account of malnutrition-related causes – reportedly bringing the whole over the past 24 hours to seven.

Additionally on Sunday, Israeli airstrikes focused an influence plant in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa.

The motion escalates strikes on Iran-backed Houthis, who because the conflict started have fired missiles at Israel and focused ships within the Pink Sea.

Israel’s army stated the strikes focused vitality infrastructure it claimed was being utilized by the Houthis, and have been launched in response to missiles and drones geared toward Israel.

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