she is talking about , again on a Thursday night , they dont want to take attention away
from the hostage protests which are mainly weekends but people are beginning to
realize that none of those still held by Hamas are coming home alive .
Hundreds in Tel Aviv demand end to Gaza war: ‘It’s a duty to refuse’
Actor accuses Israel of genocide; former IDF pilots call on current pilots to not carry out war crimes; one arrested in scuffle with police
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About 1,000 people gathered on Thursday night at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square for an anti-war protest organized by an Israeli-Palestinian coalition of peace activists and human rights groups, which included calls for soldiers to refuse to serve in the war.
Speakers also assailed Israel’s actions in the West Bank and the release from jail of a settler accused of having shot dead Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen this week, even as Hathaleen’s relatives remain in prison.
In a rare occurrence for a Tel Aviv protest of this size, one of the speakers at the demonstration, actor Yossi Zabari, explicitly accused Israel of genocide — “the word that frightens us more than the deed itself,” he said.
Israel has long rejected claims by the international community and human rights organizations that it is committing genocide in Gaza, saying that it makes efforts to prevent civilian harm, which are hindered by Hamas’s use of Gaza’s civilians as human shields.
Protesters hoisted pictures of emaciated Gazan children and Israeli hostages. A large screen on stage read, in Hebrew and Arabic, “Enough with the killing, enough with the starvation, enough with the abandonment.”
“Right now in Gaza, there is a little girl hungry for food and a little boy thirsty for water,” said Rula Daoud, a co-leader of the binational socialist group Standing Together. “I don’t know how much energy the boy and girl have left in their bodies to shout, but I know I can shout for them.” She called for a joint Jewish-Arab struggle “to sabotage life here until the government breaks.”
“We must not think that it’s not our responsibility and that we have nothing to do, because it’s possible to refuse, and it’s a duty to refuse to serve this war,” she said, as the crowd chanted: “Refuse.”
Activist Ghadir Hani, who introduced herself to applause as “an Arab-Palestinian citizen of Israel,” said in her speech that starting Sunday, dozens of peace groups will set up a “struggle tent” on nearby Dizengoff Square, “from which actions of disruption and incessant struggle will go out.”
“We won’t stop until the war of annihilation is over and the government of death is out of here,” she said.
Hani also played a video address to the demonstration by a man she introduced as “Rami, a resident of the Gaza Strip, whose family was displaced from its home and is struggling with hunger.”
Rami said he follows anti-war protests in Israel from afar, and expresses appreciation for protests that exhibit pictures of children killed by Israel.
“It shows we feel each other’s pain,” he said.
Two former IAF pilots — Maj. (res.) Hagai Tamir and Lt. Col. (res.) David Yisraeli — addressed current pilots, saying: “Refuse to carry out war crimes. Don’t close your eyes in the face of the consequences of your actions.”
Police arrested one protester after ordering demonstrators to clear Ben Tziyon Boulevard. The protesters then marched toward the Likud party headquarters on King George Street, where they sat down and lit a fire. Police shoved some of them to the ground.
Source : https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-in-tel-aviv-demand-end-to-gaza-war-its-a-duty-to-refuse/
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