Anti-government protesters fill Tel Aviv streets demanding hostages return, elections

Record ID: 1986381

  • Title: Anti-government protesters fill Tel Aviv streets demanding hostages return, elections
  • Date: 29th March 2025
  • Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (MARCH 29, 2025) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS PROFANITY*** PROTESTERS RALLYING AT HABIMA SQUARE PROTESTER CLAPPING AND CHANTING PROTESTERS RALLYING VARIOUS OF PROTEST SIGNS (SOUNDBITE) (English) 30-YEAR-OLD PROTESTER, AMOON SHANG GILLON, SAYING: "We are here today because we want all the hostages to come home and all the people of Gaza to come home also.
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  • Keywords: Gaza Hamas Israel Tel Aviv captives conflict demonstration hostages protest war
  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • City: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001273229032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS PROFANE LANGUAGE
    Anti-government protesters filled the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday (March 29), calling on the government to cease attacks on Gaza and secure the release of all hostages in Hamas captivity.
    It comes after a surge in demonstrations throughout the week across the country and rising dissent towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet for the resumption of bombings in Gaza and moves on officials deemed hostile to the government.
    Israel resumed the war against Hamas in Gaza on March 18, after a two-months of relative calm under a truce deal that saw the return from Hamas captivity of 33 Israeli hostages, alive and deceased. Fifty-nine hostages are still held in Gaza, 24 of whom are believed to be alive.
    Since then, daily protests in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the seat of Israel's government, have turned more angry, and blended with calls to return the hostages under a ceasefire deal, end the war and safeguard democratic institutions.
    (Production: Rami Amichay, Joyce Zhou, Lion Schellerer)
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