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Jerusalem – Thousands of Israelis piled up outdoors in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apartment in Jerusalem on Saturday as anger was solved by accusations of corruption and its handling of the coronavirus crisis.
“Time was up,” it read in the giant lyrics thrown into a construction site at the protest site, as demonstrators waved Israeli flags and asked Netanyahu to resign for what they say is his inability to work and business affected by the pandemic.
The protests have intensified in weeks, and critics accuse Netanyahu of being distracted by a case of corruption against him. He denies acting badly.
Netanyahu, who swore a fifth term in May after a heavily contested election, accused protesters of trampling on Israeli democracy and the media for encouraging dissent.
The right-wing Likud of Netanyahu called the protests Saturday “left-wing riots” and accused israel’s Twelfth People’s News Channel of “doing everything possible to inspire far-left protests” through the prime minister’s wary parties.
“Netanyahu is struggling to make the Israeli economy widespread again and to shift the budget and subsidies to Israeli citizens,” Likud said in a post on Netanyahu’s Twitter page.
The protests dragged on beyond the Netanyahu official in Jerusalem, with many Israelis gathered on bridges and road crossings across the country.
On a busy overpass north of the Israeli grocery shopping mall in Tel Aviv, protesters waved black flags and chanted slogans as they honked the horn from the road below.
One protester, Yael, said he had lost his job at a place to eat in Tel Aviv and that government help was slow to arrive.
“You’d think a singles crisis like this would push Netanyahu to act, and that’s the case. That’s enough,” he said, refusing to give his last name.
In May, Israel lifted a partial blockade that had flattened an infection curve. But a momentary wave of Covid-19 instances and restrictions have noticed Netanyahu’s approval ratings fall to less than 30%.
Since then, many restrictions have been lifted to bring industry activity to life, however, unemployment is soaring at 21.5% and the economy is expected to contract by 6% by 2020.
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