Several Israeli municipalities have announced a general strike for Monday, including Israel’s major city of Tel Aviv, in a bid to pressure PM Benjamin Netanyahu into accepting a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai said his municipality would go on strike from Monday, with no public meetings held and workers encouraged to join rallies in a bid to persuade the Prime Minister to take action to secure the release of the Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza. He said the six captives found dead this weekend should have already been brought home alive. “The Israeli government abandoned them, but the State of Israel is us,” he wrote on X.
