Anti-Netanyahu rally draws thousands under coronavirus curbs

 

A man wearing a protective face mask holds an Israel's flag as Israelis demonstrate against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under strict restrictions made to slow down the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel April 19, 2020 REUTERS/Corinna Kern

 

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Wearing face masks, waving black flags and keeping two yards apart, thousands of Israelis demonstrated against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu under strict coronavirus restrictions on Sunday.

 

Netanyahu, who denies any wrongdoing, is under criminal indictment in three corruption cases.

 

He is also negotiating a power-sharing deal with his rival Benny Gantz to form a coalition government that would end a year of political deadlock after three inconclusive elections.

 

Demonstrations are allowed under Israel's coronavirus restrictions, as long as participants maintain distance from each other and wear face masks.

 

Under the banner of "Save the Democracy," protesters called on Gantz's Blue and White party not to join in a coalition led by a premier charged with corruption.

 

Gantz has campaigned for clean government, but said that the coronavirus crisis has forced him to go back on his election pledge.

 

A Reuters cameraman estimated that a few thousand demonstrators attended the rally in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square. Israeli media put the figure at about 2,000 people.

 

Israel has reported more than 13,000 coronavirus cases and 172 deaths. A partial lockdown has confined most Israelis to their homes, forced businesses to close and sent unemployment to about 26%. Some restrictions have been eased since Saturday.

 

(Reporting by Rami Amichay; Editing by Alexander Smith)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-20

 

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If there really is a God, how come the evil Netanyahu has caught coronavirus and died?

Just now, Pedrogaz said:

If there really is a God, how come the evil Netanyahu has caught coronavirus and died?

GOD sent netanyahu to save israel from the coronavirus (and the islamic terror plug that destroys the middle east).

if not for netanyahu and his brave health minister (who got infected with the virus, together with his wife) israel would have been now another italy or spain.

netanyahu and litzman , the health minister, closed israeli borders to flights from china, and imposed quarantine on returnees from thailand, allready in  early JANUARY, despite extreme pressure from the chinese to keep the borders open (the chinese ambassador

to israel called it "like the holocaust" !!!!) !!!!

long live netanyahu !!

3 hours ago, rhyddid said:

Full support to the brave people who flocked the street of Tel Aviv !

flocked the streets? not really, 

just 2000 idiots who are losing to the great netanyahu again and again.

if those "brave people" , part of the delusional global left , would have been

in government in this time, they would propably keep the borders open to chinese tourists

until too late, and israel would become another devastated area like italy or spain,

paralised from the virus and later easily destroyed by iranian and palestinian nasty attacks.

long live netanyahu !!