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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem

‘We are divided’: unity in Israel fades as war in Gaza approaches ninth month

Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv demanding a prisoner swap deal and Netanyahu's resignation: they are holding placards including one saying Stop the War and standing behind a large fire in the street. It is dark and they are illuminated in the firelight.
Protests were held across Israel on 25 May, including in Tel Aviv, with calls for an immediate hostage deal and early elections. Photograph: Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu/Getty Images

In what appears to be a burnt-out building in Gaza, with Hebrew graffiti on the walls reading “Kach” and “Kahane”, references to an infamous Jewish supremacist and his outlawed political party, a masked soldier addresses Israel’s defence minister.

“Yoav Gallant, you can’t win the war. Quit. You can’t command us,” the man says in a long clip posted to social media on Saturday, in which he pledges loyalty to the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Another 100,000 reservists would mutiny, he warned, if wavering elements of the government such as Gallant scuppered Netanyahu’s goal of “complete victory” over Hamas.

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