Demonstrations for Prisoner Exchange in Israel
According to the news of Yediot Ahronoth, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, thousands of Israelis gathered near the Ministry of Defense in the capital Tel Aviv and in front of the residences of some ministers. Demonstrators demanded the signing of an urgent prisoner exchange agreement to release Israeli prisoners held in the Gaza Strip.
While the participants were carrying photographs of the 6 Israeli prisoners who lost their lives in Gaza, they said: “Understand immediately, they could be returned alive. “Those who leave them are also responsible for bringing them back.” They addressed the government by chanting slogans such as:
The Israeli army announced that the bodies of 6 Israeli prisoners were found in a tunnel in the Rafah city of the Gaza Strip on September 1. Following this statement, the families of Israeli prisoners held in Gaza held Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for the deaths of 6 prisoners and emphasized that he was a leader who “insisted on continuing the occupation of the Philadelphi Corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border line and undermined prisoner exchange agreements.”
On the other hand, Israel’s attacks on Gaza continue. In the last 10 months, the number of martyrs in Gaza has approached 41 thousand, most of them women and children. This situation deepens the humanitarian disaster in the region day by day.
