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SvennoJ on 27 June 2024
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Israeli protesters block two key intercity routes to demand elections

Israeli demonstrators have blocked the country’s coastal Route 2 linking Tel Aviv to Haifa, chanting “the country is burning”, to demand elections.

Israeli broadcaster Kann said Route 2 was blocked from both directions at the Habonim bridge in the north of the country. Protesters also partially blocked Route 79 westwards in the Lower Galilee, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth media outlet.

Protest organisers were quoted as saying the road closures were “just the beginning”, and promising the government that demonstrations would not stop “until the mandate returns to the people”.

"Enough with the government of destruction, only elections will extinguish the fire,” they said.



Translation: Another traffic disruption by the protesters at Afek Junction, Highway 79 West, blocking two lanes out of three.

Failure to address day-after in Gaza could keep Hamas in power: Israel’s ex-security official

Eyal Hulata, the former head of Israel’s National Security Council, has criticised the Israeli government for failing to develop a post-war plan for Gaza after nearly nine months of fighting.

“This is one of the biggest failures, because the actual result is the gradual return of Hamas to control the Gaza Strip,” Hulata told Israel’s Kan public broadcaster.

Netanyahu has repeatedly promised to continue the war until Hamas is destroyed, even though the military spokesman has said that entirely eliminating the group would be impossible.



Israel can reprimand its soldiers for misconduct

Israeli army ‘suspends’ soldiers after arrests during antigovernment protests: Report

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reports that the army has “suspended” four reserve soldiers after their arrests during antigovernment demonstrations in recent months.

One of these soldiers, Alon Gruzov, 35, part of the Nahal Brigade in the north, told the newspaper that he was detained briefly in April for protesting “against the criminal negligence of the abductees” and was surprised on Monday by an order from his company commander to dismiss him and freeze is military service.

Yoni Nussbaum, a lawyer for those reservists, told Haaretz that “the army accepts the police’s request to freeze the reserve service without examination or hearing of the reservists”.

An army spokesperson told the newspaper that “the reservists who were reportedly temporarily detained by the Israeli police have been suspended until the end of the proceedings in their case”.

According to Haaretz, this is the first such army action against the reservists who participated in antigovernment protests.

Shows that the army doesn't consider war crimes including tying wounded Palestinians to the hood of a Military Jeep as anything worthy to suspend soldiers for.