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Thousands protest across Israel against Netanyahu gov't ahead of Memorial Day
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Thousands join Oct. 7 victims memorial in Tel Aviv as families accuse leaders of fail
The event, organized by the umbrella protest group the October Council, was described by participants as a 'ceremony of forgetting,' reflecting frustration with the government’s handling of the Oct. 7 attack and its aftermath
Thousands protest across Israel against Netanyahu gov't ahead of Memorial Day
Bereaved father Eyal Eshel asked members of the government 'Why are you still here, while she is not?' at a demonstration organized ahead of Israel's Memorial Day. In Jerusalem, protesters called on Israelis to attend rallies outside Netanyahu's residence
Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv's Habima Square for a protest in memory of the victims of October 7. Speeches were delivered at the ceremony, with a common feature being criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the slogan "we will not let you forget."
Thousands of people came to Habima Square for an alternative ceremony to mark nearly a thousand days since the October 7 massacre, initiated by the "October Council." Bereaved families and victims attacked the leadership, saying: "When the leadership refuses to look in the mirror, calls the pain 'background noise' and turns the disaster into a technical malfunction - this is neglect."
Protesters hold a Memorial Day ceremony: "We cannot allow the government to forget the victims of the October 7 massacre and the war dead" • Ofri Bivas, sister of Yarden Bivas: "Prime Minister, a second Holocaust happened to my family, it happened to us" • Eyal Eshel, father of the late observer Roni Eshel: "Why were kibbutzim slaughtered? Why didn't any of you get up and go home on the morning of October 8?"
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