In Israel it is the day of the national strike against the Netanyahu government

Mobilization against the government is growing in Israel.The protesters are calling for an agreement with Hamas for the release of the hostages.

• On September 1, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to protest against the Netanyahu government.
• September 2nd is the time of the first major national strike since October 7th, which is paralyzing schools, transport and hospitals.
• The government is under increasing pressure to reach a hostage deal with Hamas.

Israel is sinking into political chaos.Sunday 1 September half a million of people took to the streets to protest against the Netanyahu government and its inability to reach an agreement on the hostages with Hamas, just as the Israeli army announced the discovery of other hostages in Gaza six dead hostages.At dawn on Monday 2 September the great thing began national strike against the government convened by the Histadrut, the main Israeli trade union, which is partially paralyzing the country.

From the October 7 there had never been such a mobilization against the government, which now has much more pressure on its shoulders to reach an agreement with Hamas.

Israel takes to the streets

The large national demonstration on Sunday 1 September was called byHostage families forum, the association of the families of the Israeli hostages captured on October 7 by Hamas.For months, family members have been taking to the streets against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to ask for an agreement to be reached with the radical Palestinian organization and the release of the hostages, requests which have so far gone unheeded.

This time the protest was not isolated, but spread to the whole country, also motivated by the Israeli army's communication of the discovery of six dead hostages in the Gaza Strip.In Tel Aviv they came down in the square at least 100 thousand people, who also blocked the highway.There have been clashes with the police in front of the army headquarters and at least 34 people were arrested.

Hundreds of thousands more protested in the rest of the country.In Jerusalem, security forces dispersed crowds using water cannons.According to estimates, government demonstrations took place on September 2nd half a million people.

The great national strike

If in recent months there had already been protests in Israel against the Netanyahu government, what had never happened since 7 October was one national strike.Which arrived on September 2nd, summoned fromHistadrut, Israel's main union, which has been joined by other unions and also the country's technology sector.

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The operation of the train has been suspended since dawn.Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, while the nursery schools and, for half a day, the secondary schools.The strike also affected the staff of some university Israeli, of hospitals and systems public transport.Also taking part in the mobilization were municipality of Tel Aviv and those of other smaller Israeli centers. Yair Lapid, leader of the opposition who recently left the Israeli national unity government, supported the strike.

Arnon Bar-David, head of the Histadrut union, said the strike could be extended for another few days, while the Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, which is part of the most extremist fringe of the executive, he asked to precept him, without success.