{"id":267226,"date":"2024-06-19T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=267226"},"modified":"2024-06-19T08:25:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T00:25:43","slug":"thousands-protest-in-jerusalem-against-netanyahus-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=267226","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Protest In Jerusalem Against Netanyahu&#8217;s Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEL AVIV, Jun 19 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; Tens of thousands of people have protested in Jerusalem, calling for immediate elections and an end to the war in Gaza. Israeli police said, nine protesters were arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Israelis, anguished over the hostages still held in Gaza and the ongoing war, accuse Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of putting political interests ahead of all else. They accuse the regime of having lost control of the 8-month-old war and demand a deal to stop the fighting and return the hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu denies the accusations and says he has the country\u2019s best interests in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Netanyahu&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/06\/17\/netanyahu-dissolves-war-cabinet-amid-coalition-shifts\"><strong>dissolved<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;the three-man war Cabinet, tasked with steering the conflict. The move came, a week after Benny Gantz, an opposition lawmaker, quit the coalition regime, over frustration with the Israeli leader&#8217;s handling of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe came to demonstrate again, the 50th time, we are here, in Tel Aviv, everywhere,\u201d said protester, Dror Katzman. \u201cTo get rid of this corrupted regime, that does not release the hostages, that runs the war in a clumsy way and is responsible for the worst, worst terror attack on us since the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Large anti-regime protests have taken place weekly on Saturday nights. Monday\u2019s protest in Jerusalem was led by many of the same activists, who led the protests against Netanyahu, and his attempts to overhaul the judiciary last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protesters marched from outside the Knesset, Israel\u2019s parliament, to Netanyahu\u2019s private residence carrying Israeli flags and chanting anti-regime slogans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause of you we are dying, get out of our lives\u201d one protesters\u2019 sign proclaimed, with a photo of Netanyahu and bloody handprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others referenced the 11 soldiers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/06\/15\/eight-israeli-soldiers-killed-in-southern-gaza\"><strong>killed<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in Gaza over the weekend, one of the deadliest for Israeli soldiers in months, holding a sign that read \u201cCombat soldiers refuse to be killed because of Bibi,\u201d using a nickname for Netanyahu.&#8211; NNN-MA&#8217;AN <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV, Jun 19 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; Tens of thousands of people have protested in Jerusalem, calling for immediate elections and an end to the war in Gaza. Israeli police said, nine protesters were arrested. Many Israelis, anguished over the hostages still held in Gaza and the ongoing war, accuse Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":267228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,291,194,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267229,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267226\/revisions\/267229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}