Israel: 'black flags', for democracy and against Netanyahu

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In Israel, the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care has decreased significantly. Partial deconfinement has started, and the Israelis are taking the opportunity to take to the streets, with economic and political demands while the country still has no government.

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"The  whole country is paralyzed!  ","  We are locked up and do not touch a single shekel!  Self-employed workers demonstrated in several Israeli cities, reports our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michel Paul . In front of the Knesset in Jerusalem, they burnt tires and claimed to be left behind in the rescue plan decreed by the Israeli government .

In Tel Aviv, at the initiative of the “Black Flags for Democracy” movement, more than 2,000 demonstrators, on the evening of Sunday, denounced the “  erosion of Israeli democracy  ” and the “  authoritarian drift  ” of the Prime Minister , charged in three cases of corruption, fraud and breach of trust .

"  The Israelis are this evening on Rabin Square to demonstrate, for the maintenance of the rule of law, defends Deborah, recently installed in Israel. They defend their right not to see their democracy sink.  " 

Tel Aviv places Rabin tonight Demonstration of black flags for democracy against corruption of govt Netanyahu. Against the particular of Bleu blanc de Gantz at gvt pic.twitter.com/4ulmMbsJL1

The country is going through a political crisis. Despite three elections in less than a year, Israel has no government. Benny Gantz having failed last week  to form a government, President Rivlin has entrusted the task of Parliament to propose, in a little less than three weeks, an elected representative having enough seat to try to form a government. But the camps of Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu say they are continuing their talks with a view to a possible union. Out of the question for the demonstrators of "Black Flags".

These demonstrations had been authorized by the police , who however demanded compliance with the instructions, with a distance of two meters between the demonstrators, who were required to wear masks. Israel has some 13,000 cases of infection, and 172 deaths related to the coronavirus have been reported.

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