On Sunday evening, around 500 Israeli peace activists marched from the southern city of Sderot toward the Gaza border near Kibbutz Nir Am protesting the genocide in the Strip. Demonstrators wore shirts reading “Stop the atrocities in Gaza” and carried signs with images of infants killed in Israeli airstrikes. Protesters attempted to block the Nir Am junction, and ten were detained by police.

In a call to join the demonstration – under the slogan “Drop everything and come to the Gaza border” – organizers warned that “within hours or days, Smotrich, Ben Gvir and Netanyahu are planning to send tens of thousands of soldiers to occupy Gaza, starve more children, kill more Palestinian civilians, displace more families, and sacrifice the lives of the hostages and the security of us all to settle the Strip.”

Lecturer’s movement “Academic for Israel Democracy” (AID) also called “the academic community and the public at large to oppose the continuation of war. The never-ending war in Gaza is an integral agenda of the Netanyahu government and members of the coalition have openly encouraged war crimes.” AID announced today that protests rallies against war in Gaza will be held this week in campuses across the country: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Tel-Aviv University, Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan.