Israeli Prostesters Urge Benjamin Netanyahu to Step Down
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Serangan rudal Israel menghancurkan wilayah Utara Jalur Gaza
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The father of Shani Louk, a German-Israeli woman who was kidnapped at the Nova music festival and later declared dead, blamed the government for her death and said Mr Netanyahu bears “much responsibility” for what happened.
“If the Prime Minister were to show up at my house, I'd tell him to leave,” Nissim Louk told Israeli media last week.
Israel is still reeling from the worst attack in its history which displaced more than half a million people on its northern and southern borders, according to the military.
Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed the army and Shin Bet intelligence service for the attacks and attracted widespread condemnation for publicly accusing them of security failures in a now-deleted tweet.
He took to X, last week to deny claims he was warned of a Hamas attack, saying the army and intelligence services had repeatedly said the militant group was “deterred” and did not pose an imminent security threat.
He has also been fiercely criticised for not attending a single funeral of Israelis killed by Hamas.
“Support for Netanyahu and his coalition was draining even before October 7, and since the outbreak of war it has fallen much further,” Toby Greene, a politics lecturer at Israel's Bar-Ilan University and researcher at the London School of Economics.