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'Not in our name': Israelis protest against Gaza war - but Netanyahu seems unmoved
The coordinates came through last minute.
The instruction was to get there fast. People organising demonstrations, blocking motorways and major intersections, did not want police getting wind of their plans.
The one we found ourselves at, near the town of Lod, halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, felt a bit like a flash-mob protest, done and dusted in less than half an hour. The protestors had set fire to tyres, which blazed across the motorway, filling the sky with thick black smoke.
They waved the Israeli flag and other yellow flags to show solidarity with the remaining hostages still in Gaza, whose photos they carried - their faces and names seared on the collective consciousness now - a collective trauma. "We want the war to end, we want our hostages back, we want our soldiers back safe home, and we want the humanitarian disaster in Gaza to end.
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