More than 100,000 people They gathered, like every Saturday, in Tel Aviv to protest in against judicial reform promoted by the government of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuwhile several thousand did so in other parts of the country, according to data from a company specializing in people counts at mass events and cited by local media.

“the knesset (Israel’s parliament) may be in recess, but the coup continues in full force. In the spotlight is anyone who does not align with the rebellion declared by Netanyahu, led by fascists and with the support of the corrupt against the rule of law, against the State and against us,” the leader of the the protests, Shikma Bressler, who stated that “now is the time to fight”.

For his part, the opposition leader, former Prime Minister Yair Lapid -leader of the Yesh Atid party-, marched with the protesters along the central Kaplan avenue in Tel Aviv, the epicenter of the protests that have been going on for 32 consecutive weeksthe largest in the history of Israel.

“We come to Kaplan today to say that a government that doesn’t obey the courts, that does not obey the law, it is an illegal government“, Lapid tweeted. On the other hand, three Palestinians aged 16, 20 and 25, who had entered Israel illegally, residing in the West Bank village of Aqraba, were arrested today in the area of ​​the demonstration, the Israeli Police reported, although No details have been provided about why they were there.

On Saturday, the demonstrations subsided slightly after a Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant crossed into Israel illegally and opened fire on a central Tel Aviv street, killing a security guard.

At the end of July, the protests regained momentum, bringing together more than 500,000 people throughout the countrywhen the Knesset passed the first judicial reform law, which nullifies the doctrine of reasonableness, which allowed the Supreme Court to overturn government decisions based on whether or not they were reasonable.

Parliament is now in recess until mid-October, when the government plans to go ahead with the rest of the reform legislation, although the protest movement has vowed to keep the pulse on the streets in the meantime.