More than a dozen Israeli protesters have risen to the roof of the National Library, in Jerusalem, and others have set fire to garbage and tire containers near the residence of the prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, to protest the refusal of the president to negotiate with Hamas an agreement that allows the release of the almost 50 hostages that remain in Gaza.
The protests are part of the mobilizations convened by relatives of the captives and other groups that oppose the management of the war by Netanyahu and its ultra -rightist government, which has decided to move forward with the offensive in the strip, after almost 23 months, despite the massive demonstrations against.
Some 13 protesters perched on the National Library building hung on their facade two large posters with a message for the prime minister: “You have abandoned them and killed them”, in reference to the hostages and the Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza, according to the images shared by the groups that summoned the protests.
In addition, Israeli media have reported that other protesters set fire to garbage containers already tires near the Netanyahu residence in Jerusalem. The fires occurred in the neighborhoods of Rehavia and Givat Ram and caused damage to vehicles parked in the area, according to The Jerusalem Post. According to this newspaper, the Israel Police condemned the fires caused in residential areas, stating that “the right to protest does not grant the right to set fire or to cause economic or health damage to the population.” Some residents had to be evacuated by smoke.
The Minister of National Security, the ultra -nationalist Itamar Ben Gvir, responsible for the Police, described the incidents of “terrorism” in his telegram channel. “The wave of fires caused this morning near the home of the prime minister in the Rehavia neighborhood has the support of the Attorney General, who intends to set the country on fire,” he said in reference to Gali Baharav-Miara, who maintains a pulse with the government and who reproaches not having acted against the protesters.
For his part, the Israeli Minister of Finance, also the extremist Bezalel Smotrich, called the protesters as an “group of anarchists” who seek “to” encourage unfounded hatred and civil war. ” “They must be convicted and treated severely according to the law,” he said.
Also the opposition leader, Yair Lapid, has rejected the action of the protesters, but has not defended that of the government: “I condemn the burning of vehicles in Jerusalem, but much more condemns a government that abandons the hostages to their fate in Gaza,” he has written in the social network X.
