Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Israel in a unified show of strength in protest against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Since the start of 2023, weekly protests have been held in opposition to Mr Netanyahu’s controversial plans to overhaul the judiciary.
Protestors have called on the reforms to be scrapped and for the prime minister to resign. On Sunday (26 March), however, Mr Netanyahu fired his defence minister after the former army general echoed the protestors’ calls to bring proposed reforms to a halt, prompting international concern.
In response, protests have escalated, with Israel’s largest trade union launching a general cross-sector strike involving more than 700,000 workers in health, banking and transport.
On Monday, 27 March, the prime minister agreed to delay discussions over the plan until next month.
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Passengers at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on 27 March 2023, where flights have been suspended
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At the time of writing, all flights leaving Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel’s primary aviation hub, have been suspended until further notice due to widespread strikes announced by the Worker’s Union.
Flights that are already in the air will be the only ones permitted to land, it has been reported.
Despite this, passengers continued the check-in process without knowing if their flights would depart.
The live departures board shows flights scheduled to leave later in the day, but these are not expected to go ahead.
A spokesperson for the Worker’s Union said that if Mr Netanyahu stops the judicial reform legislation, flights will return to normal, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Members of the union joined thousands more workers across different sectors in walking out in protest at the Israeli prime minister.
Elsewhere, major roads and arteries around the country have been flooded with protestors, disrupting traffic.
In Jerusalem, more than 100,000 people have congregated outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building, while in Tel Aviv, a group of demonstrators have gathered on the Ayalon Highway, temporarily blocking traffic at Hashalom Interchange, according to the Times of Israel.
And on Sunday night, protestors chanting “the country is on fire”…
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