Thousands of people took to the streets of Israel on Saturday to protest against the government, despite the tense security situation following attacks and a spate of rocket attacks.
Protesters lit candles and held a minute’s silence in memory of the victims of two attacks.
Israel has been plagued for more than three months by mass protests against the judicial reform plans of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right religious government.
One person was killed and seven injured in Tel Aviv on Friday evening after an Arab Israeli drove into tourists with a car. The perpetrator was shot. Earlier in the day, an attack on the Israeli-occupied West Bank killed two young British-Israeli sisters.
The attacks were a Palestinian response to Israeli raids on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which have fueled violence in the region.
It was also restless in various places in Israel on Saturday evening. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that a 20-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces. This happened during clashes between the army and a group of Palestinians in the West Bank. And the Israeli army said that three rockets were fired at Israel from Syria. One of them ended up on the Golan Heights.
While the weekly rally went ahead as planned, a protest march that was scheduled to follow has been canceled at the request of police, organizers said.
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