(27 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nazareth, Israel - 27 April 2024
1. Various of protesters dressed in white and red, carrying banners reading (English/ Arabic) "No war"; "Stop the war"; "Stop the genocide" and "End the siege"
2. Various of people marching, carrying red flags and banner reading (English) "205 days" (since Oct. 7)
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adel Amer, Secretary General of the Communist Party:
“The (May Day) demonstration this year takes another political dimension because of the aggressive war on Gaza, and that is why the central voice in this demonstration today is the call to stop the war and massacre against the Palestinian people and reach a prisoner and hostage exchange deal on the principle of all for all.“
4. Close of banner reading (English) "Gaza Lives""
5. People marching with banners reading (English) "Labour day" and banners in Arabic and Hebrew
6. Mid of puppets, depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacking a worker
7. People marching
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Issam Makhool, Head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality and former member of the Knesset
“We say, our message on the 1st of May to the working class, to the masses of workers, the poor and the marginalized, that this (Israeli) government, which is criminal towards the Palestinian people, is criminal towards the people of Israel because it demands that the workers pay the price of this war, and we feel the exaggeration and the attack on the rights of workers now.“
9. Various of people marching
STORYLINE:
Hundreds attending an early May Day march in northern Israel on Saturday protested against the Israel-Hamas war and demanded an immediate Gaza cease-fire.

The protest in Nazareth was attended by members of the Communist party, the Hadash - a coalition of leftist parties - and Palestinians citizens of Israel.

The demonstrators demanded the parties involved in the conflict reach a deal to exchange the hostages still being held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.

They also called on the Israeli government to respect the rights of workers and not make them pay the high price of the almost seven-months war.

Hamas sparked the war with its attack into southern Israel on Oct. 7, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 people as hostages.

Israel says the militants are still holding around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.

At least 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive, around two-thirds of them children and women, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.

AP video by Shlomo Mor

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