“One round (of fighting) brings another round, more kills and more stamina. The circle of horror must stop,” said lawmaker Ayman Odeh during a rally in the northern town of Haifa.
The leader of the Joint List, an alliance of leftist and Arab parties, advocated resuming negotiations to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
The Times of Israel electronic newspaper reported demonstrations in Shfaram, Umm el-Fahm, Rahat, Kafr Yasif, Jaffa, Taibe and in front of Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s house in Tel Aviv. Several legislators from the Joint List and the Meretz party condemned in recent hours the military offensive against the coastal enclave, where more than two million Palestinians live.
“Business cost attack: blood for votes,” MP Ofer Cassif, a member of the left-wing Hadash party, wrote on Twitter.
The politician accused Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz of resorting to violence to win more seats in the election.
However, he warned that such action “will only lead to a sea of tears and blood in the Gaza ghetto, where two million people have been imprisoned for 15 years, and also in Israel.”
Lawmaker Sami Abou Shahadeh also denounced attempts by Lapid and Gantz to “do anything to stay in power, including the murder of a five-year-old girl.”
This new war crime is part of an immoral electoral campaign to demonstrate that they can be as criminal as Netanyahu, he stressed, referring to opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who last year during his mandate bombed the Gaza Strip.
Who will stop these war crimes? The international community continues to reward the Israeli occupation in such a way that Apartheid is deepening, Abou Shahadeh lamented.
His colleague in the hemicycle Aida Touma-Sliman also criticized the military operations in the coastal enclave.
“Enough of the targeted attack on Gaza!! The killings and bombings will only lead to more suffering and destruction in Gaza and will not provide any security to the citizens of Israel,” he warned on Twitter.
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