Hello, im geeta guru murthy, thanks forjoining us. The stoppage is a day after the Israeli Army says it has recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of the 7th of october. That led to mass Demonstrations Injerusalem and Tel Aviv on sunday. Organisers are calling on Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a deal with hamas to bring home the estimated 100 remaining hostages. Sundays protests were largely peaceful but some crowds broke through police lines, blocking a major highway in Tel Aviv. Our correspondent is following the story. After the biggest protests in israel since the start of the war in gaza with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating across the country, today a general strike. So thousands of businesses Will Be closed, some schools, universities, government ministries, banks, some bus networks, so we are expecting a major hit on the Economy Today in israel. The outrage against hamas is a given but these protests are not about that, they are aga
Its affecting some flights at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and business, schools, and other forms of transport have also been hit. The stoppage is a day after the Israeli Army said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of 7th october. Alastair burt is a former conservative mp who served as Minister Of State for the middle east. He gave me his reaction to developments. The scale of protests is certainly unprecedented. There has been thousands of people demonstrating regularly against prime Minister Netanyahu firstly for internal political reasons, then post October The 7th lately in terms of his handling of the crisis, but the scale of the protest and the sense that the prime Ministers Strategy after October The 7th of seeking total victory of the elimination of hamas and the recovery of the hostages has proved to be a failure because it was impossible. He was advised that you couldnt do both and that advice has been borne out by experience and
The ground, there would be under our control. The corridor should not be evacuated because if we give up that control, gaza will become an enclave of terror. But when they did that and we did do the disengagement, they carried out the order and i wrote him a Resignation Letter because i said that the minimum requirement is we must actually keep the Philadelphia Corridor and our hands. And Theres Nothing new about this and wound if we do not have the corridor, it will continue to be arming themselves and a monster will be created. This Axis Of Evil needs the Philadelphi Corridor and it is incumbent upon us to control it. Hamas therefore stubbornly does not want us there and for that reason, we Are demanding that reason, we Are demanding that we Are there because our presence there is a strategic issue. We have to fix say that we Are there. 0k, people said to me, you can leave for 42 days and then come back. And i said yes, i have heard that. We have been there before we left and the mis
The operation was to secure just a tunnel by the israeli forces found and live hostage last week. 50 forces found and live hostage last week last week. So the israeli forces were last week. So the israeli forces were just last week. So the israeli forces were just trying l last week. So the israeli | forces were just trying to clear the tunnel and they found the so they did not go there upon intelligent information or something, theyjust found them while they are searching the tunnel. So they said the circumstances around the killing, the israeli. There is an exchange of accusations. The Israeli Army saying that How Massa killed them intentionally and the Israeli Minister Benjamin netanyahu just issued a statement a few minutes ago saying we will continue to feel the hostages and israel will not rest until we reach the killers, saying that the Military Operation in gaza would continue. But hamas issued also a statement and they said that they were killed in an israeli shelling, and the
Elsewhere, three israelis have elsewhere, three israelis have died when their vehicle died when their vehicle was fired on near the city was fired on near the city of hebron in the of hebron in the occupied West Bank. Occupied West Bank. With me is Mohamed Taha with me is Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. From bbc arabic. Lets start with the news of lets start with the news of the bodies of the six hostages the bodies of the six hostages were found. What more do we were found. What more do we know about the operation to find and recover the bodies . Know about the operation to find and recover the bodies . The operation was to secure a the operation was to secure a tunnel where the forces found tunnel where the forces found and alive hostage last week. And alive hostage last week. The israeli forces were trying the israeli forces were trying to clear the tunnel and they to clear the tunnel and they found the bodies there so they found the bodies there so they didnt go there upon didnt go t