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"Tensions flared in Jaffa on Monday as pro-Palestine demonstrators and counter-protesters faced off during a vigil for children killed in Gaza. Footage shows activists re-hanging portraits and signs on a wall, arguing with opponents and police as officers monitor the scene. A demonstrator explained that the group had been gathering at the site for two years. "We wanted to find a place where people from Jaffa, who have family members in Gaza, can mourn without the fear of persecution from the police or from right-wing extremists. So we came here, staying every day with signs of children who were murdered." "Yesterday, a gang of right-wing extremists came and ripped down the pictures, saying, 'These are lies. These people didn't die.' And we are here, Jews and Arabs, [...] putting them all together, putting the signs again on the wall to make sure that no one forgets the 21,000 kids who were murdered in Gaza," he persisted. Jaffa, a predominantly Arab neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, has seen repeated tensions between Jewish and Arab residents since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023. The demonstration is part of a wider wave of anti-government protests across Israel, driven by frustrations with Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership and renewed calls for elections, as the military continues operations in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon despite a US-backed ceasefire. Tensions have also remained high in the West Bank, where Israeli forces or settlers killed at least 759 Palestinians and 26 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, according to official figures from both sides."
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