Thousands protest in Tel Aviv in ‘unprecedented’ anger towards Netanyahu
An incredible unprecedented turnout since the war started, since the October 7 attack. This is an anti-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protest; civil society [groups] have come together to organise this.
This is unprecedented because throughout the beginning of this war, everyone had agreed, including the anti-government protesters, that they needed to be unified at a time when there is war, at a time when captives are still being held in Gaza, The turnout here is much, much higher than what we’ve seen in the last few weeks, a few hundred, before that it was a few dozen, and now, quite a few thousand people gathered here.
Just to give you an idea of some of the things they’d been shouting: “Bushah bushah, bushah”, which means “shame, shame, shame”. They’ve said this government is morally corrupt, they’ve even pointed out that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including some of his ministers, haven’t even sent their children to fight the war in Gaza.
They’ve said that October 7 is directly to do with Netanyahu in that he is the reason that it happened, and the reason being the incompetence, the decisiveness, because of the political infighting in the most far-right government Israel has seen in its history.
‘Deliberate starvation not famine’: UN human rights expert
Gaza is experiencing “deliberate starvation not famine”, Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, has said in a post on X
“We need an immediate ceasefire,” Mofokeng added.
Mofokeng, who serves as an independent UN human rights expert, made the comments in response to a report from the UN secretary general, warning that “widespread famine looms” in Gaza.
It’s deliberate starvation not famine.
We need an immediate ceasefire. https://t.co/CnHF9kDOZN
— Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng (@drtlaleng) January 6, 2024
New Yorkers rally for Palestine in ‘Little Yemen’, The Bronx, New York
Hundreds of protesters in London have staged a sit-in on Westminster Bridge, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in the first big demonstration of the year.
