Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Tel-Aviv and
across Israel to protest against economic injustice. The protest’s
organizers are demanding that the Knesset rewrite the 2012 budget
"taking into account the demands of the people."
The latest rally comes after a wave of social protests swept Israel
over the summer and culminated in September, when half a million
Israelis came out onto the streets. But since then, the movement has
slowly died out as protesters returned to their daily lives.
Israeli police say more than 30,000 people marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, and thousands more protested in Jerusalem.
As
RT’s Paula Slier reports, many protesters are concerned that their
story of social protest will be missed by the international community
and media, which is now focused on unfolding events in Gaza.
In
the past few hours, multiple rockets have been fired from Gaza into
southern Israel. Several people have been injured. It came as
retaliation after Israeli aircraft struck Palestinian militants in
southern Gaza on Saturday, killing five.
Due to the latest exchange of fire, a planned protest in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba was canceled.
Paula
Slier reports that people on the street say the timing of the Israeli
airstrikes against Gaza is very convenient for the government, as it
helps distract attention from Israel’s own domestic problems.
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