Approximately 20,000 demonstrators gathered in Sakhnin on Tuesday, October 13, for a solidarity rally with the Palestinians in the occupied territories. “We’ve been warning for months that what they’re doing in Al-Aqsa will spark an intifada, and no one listened, and now everyone’s asking ‘what happened?’ You’re lying Mr. Netanyahu,” said the Chairman of Hadash and former MK Muhammad Barakeh.

The protest was organized by the High Follow-Up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel as part of a general strike in the Arab sector on Tuesday that included schools, public institutions and businesses in Arab municipalities.