For the 33rd week in a row, tens of thousands of protesters have demonstrated throughout the occupied territories against the extremist cabinet of Israel’s policies, including its purported plan for a judicial overhaul.
Numerous locations, including the occupied city of al-Quds, the northern city of Haifa, the coastal city of Tel Aviv, and dozens of others, hosted the rallies on Saturday.
Protesters gathered in al-Quds near the homes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
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Since Netanyahu revealed the overhaul plan in January, protests have become a recurring weekly occurrence. This plan aims to deny the regime’s Supreme Court the ability to overturn political decisions.
The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported on the rallies on Saturday, stating, “These protests took place in the shadow of the crisis between the Israeli army and the government.”
More than 10,000 Israeli reserve soldiers, including pilots from the air force and members of the elite intelligence unit 8200, have declared that they will no longer report for duty voluntarily in protest against the cabinet’s insistence that the overhaul plan moves forward.
The decision has prompted the Israeli top brass to issue a warning about modifications to the regime’s “war-readiness.”
The overhaul plan has given “messianic extremists the opportunity to actualize their racism,” according to Danny Yatom, a former head of the Israeli spy agency Mossad, who spoke at a rally in Haifa. He also claimed that the ultra-orthodox have been able to use the plan to gain a draft exemption for the military and more funding.”
Netanyahu wanted to be regarded as “the defender of Israel, but he will be regarded as the destroyer,” the speaker claimed.”
The leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, declared to the crowd at a different protest in the city that the Israeli cabinet “hates the truth.”. Although it doesn’t want to hear it, it will be forced to.
It’s Netanyahu’s skill that is the issue. We are being destroyed from within, he continued, and that is the problem.
Since the Knesset passed the first overhaul plan bill at the end of July, which limited the Supreme Court’s ability to deem the cabinet’s decisions “unreasonable,” the protests have picked up steam.
The Knesset-approved bill is scheduled to be the subject of petitions that the court will hear on September 12. According to media reports, the cabinet is trying to push back the date.
