by TOI Staff and Noam Lehmann at The Times of Israel
Thousands of protesters blocked traffic on Tel Aviv’s Begin Street, outside of the IDF’s military headquarters on Tuesday as people rallied up and down the country for the third consecutive day demanding a hostages-for-ceasefire deal, after the IDF recovered the bodies of six hostages from Gaza on Saturday night, all of them executed just days earlier.
In Tel Aviv, the crowd of protesters swelled to include several thousand people, according to media reports, with relatives of hostages delivering angry speeches from atop a van.
“The Philadelphi Corridor is the biggest bluff there is,” declared Eli Albag, father of hostage Liri Albag, referring to an area on the Gaza-Egypt border where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded troops remain, turning it into a major sticking point in talks.
“Netanyahu thinks Israel’s people are dummies. Hezbollah, Iran, the West Bank, Gaza — the most important axis is the Ben Gvir-Smotrich axis. That’s the most dangerous axis to the nation of Israel,” he said, according to the Ynet news site.
“You can’t take control over two people, how will you take over 14 kilometers,” Albag continued, referring to ultranationalist ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich…
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