Israeli protests that demand that their government firm a truce that releases the captives kidnapped in Gaza rises in tone. A group of unidentified people has caused several small fires on Wednesday early in the morning around the official residence of the Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, without causing injuries. Another 13 protesters have climbed to the roof of the National Library, located in front of the Israeli Parliament, also in Jerusalem, from where they have dropped banners that accuse the head of the Executive of Negligence and Murder.
The Jerusalem and Shin Bet police, the Israeli intelligence agency, now seek to the authors of the fires who have calcined a vehicle near the residence of the Israeli leader. The protesters have also set fire to tires and garbage cubes, forcing the eviction of several neighbors.
In parallel, a group of citizens has risen to the roof of the library, one of the most emblematic buildings in the city. From there they have dropped banners in which it was read: “You left them and kill them.” These have been lying on the facade of the building.
Entrenched on the roof of the library
The group has entrenched over the library for more than five hours, when the police have risen them. Various videos disseminated from the surroundings of the building show the protesters sitting on the ground, caught between them to become strong, before the advance of the agents towards them. The 13 have been arrested and taken to the police station, according to police sources. Dozens of more protesters were concentrated in front of the building, where they held posters: “If we did not resist, we are complicit in the crime.”
The mobilizations contrary to the prolongation of the offensive on Gaza, which is on its way to turning two years, have lived a rebound for weeks. The Israeli army is immersed in the initial phases of a complex operation – and that hundreds of Gazati victims have already been charged – with the purpose of taking total control of the city of Gaza, the largest urban nucleus in the enclave.
Some high -command of the army have expressed on numerous occasions that advise against that operation, which see dangerous for the survival of the captives that Hamas can hide in the area. But the Netanyahu government imposes its will on the Chief of the General Staff and requires him to carry out an offensive that drives skepticism among the families of the captives and among the reservists, who see in it a maneuver with political interests to ensure the continuity of the Executive.
Several Israeli groups have summoned new protests for the afternoon of Wednesday. In the morning there have also been small concentrations in the face of the particular residences of some Israeli ministers. Among them, Ron Dermer, a trusted person of Netanyahu, Minister of Strategic Affairs and head of the Israeli negotiating team. Several Israeli citizens have appeared on Wednesday before their residence to read aloud the names of the 48 captives, alive and dead, who remain kidnapped in Hamas’s tunnels, while denouncing their personal failure, having not been able to release a single hostage.
“Water, my child,” Viki Cohen, mother of an Israeli captive in Gaza, wrote Wednesday. “Have you slept tonight? Have you eaten something in recent days? I don’t abandon you. Today, we will protest in Jerusalem along with all Israel. We are fighting for you.”
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