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With Blinken in Tel Aviv, IDF mothers protest US interference in war

(JNS) - A group composed of some 7,000 mothers of Israeli soldiers fighting in the Gaza Strip held up huge posters depicting the children of senior U.S. officials as IDF recruits during a protest in front of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's Tel Aviv hotel on Tuesday.

The message: What if it were your children fighting in the Gaza Strip? Would you continue to demand the resupply of the enemy?

The group behind the protest, Imahot HaLohamim ("Mothers of Combat Soldiers") is demanding an end to U.S. pressure on Israel.

"Our message is very simple. Our soldiers' lives have to come first and...

 
 

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