Around two thousand protesters rallied on the main street near the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, for the first time since the ceasefire agreement took effect.
The police forcefully removed a stand by „Looking the Occupation in the Eye,“ an activist group opposing Israel‘s occupation of the West Bank, Haaretz reported. The police claimed that the stand blocked the planned route of the march.
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — October 11, 2025: Thousands gathered at a Tel Aviv rally supporting the release of Israeli captives from Gaza, where U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff praised Prime Minister Netanyahu.
While the crowd cheered “Thank you!” for Witkoff and U.S. efforts, boos erupted when Netanyahu was mentioned. Relatives of hostages have criticized the Israeli leader for allegedly delaying negotiations for political gain.
Witkoff defended Netanyahu and his negotiator, Ron Dermer, saying both had sacrificed much for Israel and devoted themselves to the country’s service.
Thousands gathered at Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square Saturday to celebrate the recently signed peace deal between Israel and Hamas, which was brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. Upon mention of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s part in establishing the first phase of the deal, the crowd erupted in boos, repeatedly interrupting U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff’s speech. #Politics #BenjaminNetanyahu #Israel #Hamas #Gaza
Trump noted the widespread support in Israel for a hostage deal that ends the war, demonstrating a level of familiarity with domestic Israeli politics that has led him to squeeze Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into accepting his proposal, even though it places the premier at odds with his far-right coalition partners who want to continue the war and permanently occupy Gaza.
Tensions are at a breaking point in Israel as thousands gather in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accept Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan and end the war. Hostage families, holding banners reading “It’s Now or Never,” have issued an emotional plea to the Israeli gove ment to ensure that Trump’s proposal is not sabotaged.
Aerial footage from Tuesday (26 August) shows widespread disruption on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv as demonstrators call on the government to agree to a ceasefire deal which would see all hostages returned home.
Protesters can also be seen walking across the highways with placards with hostages faces on and banners reading “bring them home”, whilst black smoke from the burning tires billowed in the air.
Israeli protesters are hosting a “day of disruption” to call for an end of fighting, with numerous events planned across the country.
Protesters burned tires and blocked traffic in Israel on Tuesday (August 26), as they demanded the return of hostages held in Gaza. The protests are part of a nationwide „Day of Disruption“ as Israelis, in support of families of hostages held in Gaza, call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach an agreement with Hamas to end the war and release the remaining captives.
“If, God forbid, the hostages die as a result of this operation, you will not be able to run away from this,” he says, addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “You will be to blame for the death of my Eitan.”
“I don’t want to receive Eitan in a nylon bag,” he continues.
He calls on protesters to take to the streets, saying “only the people, through public pressure, can save them [the hostages].”
“If Netanyahu signs the deal, on Sunday he can already begin negotiating for the return of the rest of the hostages in exchange for ending the war,” Einav Zangauker says in remarks to the press outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
“If the conquest of Gaza [City] begins, there will not be a deal,” she adds, while accusing Netanyahu of “placing obstacles [before a deal] and blaming Hamas” while moving forward with plans to capture the Strip’s largest urban center.
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Live from Hostages Square in Tel Aviv: thousands of demonstrators gather to demand an end to the Gaza war and a deal to free hostages still held in Gaza. Families of the captives are leading calls for urgent action as the war nears its two-year mark.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents relatives of Israeli captives in Gaza, has urged the public to join an antiwar march this evening in front of Israel’s Kirya military base in Tel Aviv.
The group says it invites Israelis to “stand and march with them … and cry out together: ‘Enough with sacrificing the hostages! Enough with sacrificing the soldiers, both active and reserve! Enough with sacrificing the evacuees!‘”
It also urged people who cannot join the march to step outside at 8pm (17:00 GMT) and flip on their phone flashlights in solidarity with the Israeli captives.
Following a big gathering at Hostages Square, hostages’ families begin a march around the army headquarters in protest of the Gaza occupation plan, joining protesters and other hostages’ families from the anti-government protest outside the Begin Street entrance to the army headquarters.
During that protest, speakers urged soldiers to refuse to serve in Gaza and called on opposition heads as well as business, labor and academic leaders to bring the country to a general strike. At the same time, dozens of activists split from the main march in Tel Aviv and are blocking the central Ayalon highway in both directions in several points. The activists burned tires in one of their blocking points and three were arrested by police.
Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway shut down as protesters light bonfires in the road; relatives of hostages bewail ‘eternal war-mongers’ for choosing to ‘sacrifice’ their loved ones
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Nearby, at the anti-government, pro-hostage deal protest in front of the Begin Street entrance to the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, speakers urged soldiers to refuse to serve in the expanded fighting, and called on opposition heads as well as business, labor and academic leaders to bring the country to a standstill.
“An entire county is held hostage by Hamas and the government of Israel,” said Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker. “What needs to be done? The country needs to grind to a halt, now.”
Families of hostages in Gaza attended a massive protest in Tel Aviv calling for the release of the remaining hostages. ABC News’ Ian Pannell reports from Israel.
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Israel said that eight people were killed in the attacks overnight by Iran and that almost 300 were injured, with at least one person in a serious condition.
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Footage circulating online appears to show Israel’s air defence system malfunctioning for reportedly the third day in a row as an interceptor missile crashes back down in Tel Aviv.
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For another consecutive week, tens of thousands of people demonstrated across Israel Saturday evening (March 29) for the release of remaining hostages held in Gaza and against the war in Gaza and the far-right government.
A rally against the government led by a coalition of protest groups was held at 6:30 p.m. at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square. After the demonstration, protesters marched to Begin Road to join hostages’ families demonstrating there at 8 p.m. Separately, a rally at Hostages Square at 8 p.m. organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum
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Anti-government protesters march from Habima Square to Begin Gate where they will join relatives of hostages to call on the government to cease fire in Gaza and secure the release of all hostages in Hamas captivity.
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Anti-government protesters gather at Habima Square in Tel Aviv and in cities and junctions across the country for weekly demonstrations.
On Sunday afternoon, thousands of protesters streamed toward Jerusalem’s Azza Road from the direction of the Knesset, many of them carrying tents they planned to set up as part of an overnight protest encampment near Netanyahu’s residence on the busy street. Holding flags and bullhorns, demonstrators blew horns, chanted slogans and held pictures of hostages they called to put and end the war in Gaza.
Earlier, Efraim Davidi, a leading member of the Communist Party of Israel and former member of the Histadrut leadership told the crowd at Azza Street, “All economy, factories, ministries and municipalities, schools and universities must go on general strike until the fall of the far-right and racist government”. “A government that refuses to stop the bloodshed in the deadly war in Gaza, to obey the law and the return of the hostages is dangerous and must be stopped now.” Speaking in front of thousands of protesters in Jerusalem, Davidi urged the country to mobilize “right now against the government’s actions.”
Zehntausende Menschen haben am Samstag in Tel Aviv und anderen Orten in Israel gegen die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanyahu protestiert. Sie erinnerten an die im Gazastreifen festgehaltenen Geiseln und warfen Netanyahus Regierung vor, mit dem Wiederaufflammen der Kämpfe in dem Küstenstreifen die Geiseln massiv zu gefährden. Die Wut der Demonstranten entlud sich auch über die von der Regierung beschlossene Entlassung des Inlandsgeheimdienstchefs Ronen Bar.
The government of Bibi is not the same as people of Israel.
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s government to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service and resume fighting in Gaza.
Netanyahu said this week he had lost confidence in Ronen Bar, who has led Shin Bet since 2021, and intended to fire him effective April 10, prompting three days of protests.
In his pre-recorded address at Hostages Square, Ben Ami thanked the protesters who have come out week after week to draw attention to the plight of the hostages and ensure that they remain in the public eye.
What keeps you going is that suddenly you see a nation fighting for you,” he said. “You have no idea, no idea how much power that gives to those left behind.”
„We carried out a military operation targeting a vital target of the Israeli enemy in Tel Aviv, using a hypersonic ballistic missile,“ Yemeni spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a statement aired by al-Masirah TV.
„The operation achieved its goal successfully,“ he said, adding that his group also carried out an attack using four drones and targeted „vital targets“ in Tel Aviv.
Thousands of protesters gathered Saturday evening, November 30, for a hostage release deal and cease-fire in Gaza across Israel, after Hamas released a video of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander in captivity. His mother, Yael, spoke at the main rally in Tel Aviv.
Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, says that it is “impossible to hold back the tears” after watching the video released by Hamas which Alexander “begs to return home,” and attacked the far-right government.
“A government that does not put a new initiative on the table for a deal and an end to the war to bring back Edan and the other hostages is a government that betrays the hostages and their families, and sacrifices them to their deaths in captivity,” Zangauker says at the massive demonstration held in front of the Israeli army headquarters at Begin Road in Tel-Aviv. “This week, the prime minister signed a deal for an end to the war in Lebanon. How can it be that Netanyahu signs a deal for the north but prevents a deal for the end of the war in the South?”