Israël : plus d'un millier de manifestants contre la guerre avec l'Iran et le Hezbollah
"End the endless war": more than a thousand people demonstrated Saturday night in Tel Aviv against the war waged by Israel against Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, calling on the authorities to put an end to it, before being dispersed by the police.
"Don't bomb! Talk!", "End of Bibi's nonsense", chanted protesters gathered in Habima Square, in the heart of the metropolis, an AFP journalist on the scene observed.
A woman held a sign that read: "Netanyahu is the greatest threat to the existence of Israel," referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, nicknamed "Bibi."
The Middle East has been plunged into a war since February 28th triggered by a joint attack by the United States and Israel against Iran, to which Tehran is responding with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel and several countries in the region.
The Islamist movement Hezbollah entered the conflict on March 2nd to avenge the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in Tehran. Israel retaliated with large-scale airstrikes across Lebanon and a ground offensive in the south of the country.
Shortly after the start of the rally at 4:00 PM GMT, the police, who had only authorized a limited mobilization of 150 people in the name of war-related security measures, pushed back the protesters, some of whom returned to the scene or sat down on the ground.
"The police are trying to silence our voices" but "it is our duty to be present," Alon-Lee Green, co-director of Standing Together, an Israeli-Palestinian group that organised the demonstration, told AFP.
"We are here to demand an end to the war in Iran, the war in Lebanon, the ongoing war in Gaza, and to put an end to the pogroms in the West Bank."
"I am against the war because (...) I am very skeptical about the reasons put forward" by the Prime Minister, said Cécile, 62, who did not wish to give her last name.
Israel and the United States, while aiming to eradicate the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles, accuse the Islamic Republic of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, which Tehran denies by asserting that its program is strictly civilian.
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