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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Israelis erupt in protest to demand cease-fire after 6 more hostages die in Gaza
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and MELANIE LIDMAN TEL AVIV, Israel©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
36 Comments
Jik7Y
There should be mass protests against the murdering genocidal Hamas.
John-San
Great news. More protest. While your protesting Protest the age of consent being drop to 14. Your enclave is getting a bad reputation for a society for pedophiles. Really when it became one state one vote the first law that will be change will the this law made for Pedophiles.
ian
But hamas already agreed to the ceasefire proposal
WoodyLee
Only the citizens of Israel can STOP this Genocide, Not Biden, Not Bibi, and Not Sinwar.
Yrral
Harris has to choose, between being President or supporting a bunch of malcontent Israelis Jews ,who could care less about her agenda
marc laden
WHY NO Cease-fire rally in Gaza???? Palestine???? in any Muslim nations????? any Hamas supporting groups in any place on earth????? Asking to return the hostages and for cease-fire?????
WHY???
Answer lies in a book written 1400 years ago.. and those who following blindly.
WoodyLee
It Appears that Hamas has changed tactics and decided NOT to allow the IGF to take any hostage alive.
These 6 souls were murdered a day or 2 before Bibi troops arrival according to the Israeli army spokesman, which means they were monitored and orders were given !? to end the lives of these hostages.
WoodyLee
“Nothing is worse than knowing that they could have been saved,” said Dana Loutaly. “Sometimes it takes something so awful to shake people up and get them out into the streets.”
Feel Sorry for the relatives of these 6 souls indeed.
Aly Rustom
Not once ian but at least 3 times.
Netanyahu does not give a rat's butt about the hostages, and an end to the war would mean an end to him. He is also desperately trying to escalate the war so that he can stay in power indefinitely. The israeli public is starting to realize that.
Alfie Noakes
Lies, just as everything that comes out of the mouths of these genocidal monsters is a lie. These 'hostages' were dead last week, murdered by the Israeli air force in a failed rescue attempt, with bombs funded by American tax payers.
Netanyahu and Blinken are to blame. They don't want a ceasefire, they just want endless murder, ethnic cleansing, land theft. Barbarians.
Ah_so
I heard about this today - apparently among the far right and other anti-Semites, it is becoming popular to frame Israel as a paedophile state, and suddenly, apropos about nothing, here you are doing exactly this. The Jewish sexual predator is a very old piece of anti-Semitism, and something the German Nazis regularly depicted.
And a quick check shows that the proposal is that if someone is below the standard age of consent, as long as both parties are over 14, then it is not a crime as long as the age gap is no more than 3 years. Very sensible and prevents needless and absurd prosecutions of teenagers.
And while this is technically off topic, I think it is worth remembering in the context of the current conflict, how quickly old fashioned anti Semitic tropes come back. Apparently it's all over Twitter.
Mr Kipling
6 dead Jews and they protest in the street. 40,000 dead Palestinians and nothing?
Ironic that they were killed by US supplied Israeli bombs.
John-San
Ah-so. 12 IDF soldiers where charge and imprisoned with child raped and over 100,000 adults protested and storm the goal to free these pedophiles where they were imprison. Pedophile is a culture in this enclave and the attitudes and laws prove this. If that Anti semitic. I will proudly wear that badge of honour with pride.
WoodyLee
“You were abandoned on and on, daily, hour after hour, 331 days,” his mother, Nira, said. “You and so many beautiful and pure souls.”
So SAD to read this, it really is.
owzer
Hamas is disgusting.
Wasabi
Wrong, the terrorist can stop this now if they release the hostages.
DaDude
She already made her decision in support of Israel but YOU will still rush out to vote for her based on skin color. Your words, not mine.
dbsaiya
Who can trust Israel's autopsy? Netanyahu will do anything to stay in power so he doesn't face prison time for all his corruption. And Biden's outrage? Where was his outrage when another American, a Palestinian American journalist named Shireen, was killed by Israelis? Where is his outrage when over 40,000 Palestinians, mostly children are being murdered? This madness is beyond belief.
WoodyLee
Let us not forget that over 40,000 Palestinian, and 3,000 Israeli souls also PERISHED due to the failure of the two sided reaching an agreement to end the fighting.
Occupation comes at a price for both sides, NO ONE wins when the other side is OPPRESSED, JUSTICE is the only path Forward.
Chabbawanga
Maybe they are terrified of Hamas, an armed militia, who have apparently being stealing aid from the regular folk for decades.
Maybe the people of Gaza are preoccupied with things like finding shelter, food, clean water, medicine, missing loved ones, missing limbs, or being constantly herded from one location to the next at the whim of the IDF.
Zaphod
I am not sure how that is supposed to work. Has Hamas offered to release the remaining hostages unconditionally? It seems these protesters are following Western media bias.
Zaphod
Mr Kipling
It is a war, not a body count. WW2 ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan, and not when enough Germans and Japanese were killed. Fact is, Hamas can end the war at any time by surrendering and releasing the remaining surviving hostages. Why are you not asking for them to do that?
WoodyLee
Hamas Spokesman Mr. Khalil just stated during an interview that Hamas leadership lost contact with the guards of these 6 hostages soon after a video of the Israeli-American Mr. Hersh Goldberg was handed to Qatar reps to pass on to his family in Israel, Hamas claims that the hostages were killed long ago during sever air strikes by the IAF in the Rafah area and they did not know the where about of all 6 of them.
WoodyLee
If and when Bibi he had enough Palestinians blood down his throat, only then this extermination will end.
Hamas is NOT going anywhere, Israel is not going anywhere, only the innocents are dying and going to where ever we believe they go after life.
Gene Hennigh
How many of the hostages are now known to be dead? Isn't getting them free paramount in all this? Israel, rather, Netanyahu, seems to have forgotten all about them. Hamas, of course, is cruelly holding them as playing cards. They don't seem to care. But the people (yes, I know, especially the families) want them home. Both sides are hard to side with. Kill 1,000,00 Palestinians and not one hostage is returned. Stop, take a breather, negotiate to get them home, and then back to war if you want. Soon, there won't be any hostages to save.
u_s__reamer
The deaths of 6 israelis are causing more outrage in Israel and in western MSM than the lives of 60,000 Arabs snuffed out. How did the six die? After all the egregious lies around October 7 and during the following 11 months 24/7 the word of Israeli officials has by now been shown to be worthless. The world waits in disbelief until the wounds are shown as concrete proof OR Hamas (whose word is more to be trusted) confirms the Zionists' allegations. Even children know that lying has consequences, especially when they have read their Aesop.
Chabbawanga
But if Hamas dont care about the civilian deaths, then what?
Its just unfortunate that a group of people with no affiliation are being massacred in their thousands?
wallace
The Israeli media does not report what is happening in Gaza.
RichardPearce
Given that Netanyahu ordered his militants to fire on these 6 (and more) on October 7th, and basically every day thereafter, his claims that it was 'Hamas' that killed them seem, shall we say, self serving, and lacking evidence.
Especially given that he also claimed that another Israeli he ordered targeted survived, gave a statement, then had to personally seek out media attention to pointedly and directly refute Netanyahu's claims she'd been violated, beaten, and degraded by 'Hamas' but instead had escaped two close calls with death at the hands of Netanyahu's militants.
RichardPearce
Supporters of the Israeli regime seem to have forgotten what happened to those who surrendered to the genocidal regime that claimed it was 'only defending itself' and had 'absolute claim' to the lands they'd been living on for generations.
They've also managed to forget what 'the West' and the ICTY (who's rulings are cited as setting the precedents for the ICC) had to say about a religion/ethnicity based claim to territory they'd been the minority in for generations taking precedent over the claims of the population that had been living there before the campaigns of forced displacement and murder based on those claims.
RichardPearce
Wasabi is right, if Netanyahu releases ALL the hostages his militants have kidnapped in the last DECADE, Palestine has agreed in a deal hammered out with Biden to release the few participants in numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity (and even turning some helpless innocents over to a violent racist cult) presently in protective custody (remember, Netanyahu has been trying to kill them since October 7th)
Geeter Mckluskie
Six more hostages were "killed"...
John-San
Word getting about that IDF found a section of tunnels and thinking Hamas holy warriors were hiding out so they gas the tunnel with how not what killing the hostages and their carers.
John
Former Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid referring to "Netanyahu and the death cabinet". ( Mods- his words not mine). He's not wrong. Smotrich trying to get today's general strike stopped. Getting desperate.
justasking
Carers? So nice of Hamas to be caring of their hostages. What a holy fight this is!
John-San
Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, The good guts in this genocide. How is that arrest warrant for genocide going for Naziyahou. Ask the return hostages they all have referred to their hosts as great carers. Do the occupiers lie?