Tuesday Briefing: Growing outrage in Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, yesterday brushed aside pleas from allies and chants from Israeli protesters who demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.

After thousands of Israeli workers walked off the job, angry over the recent deaths of six Israeli hostages in Gaza, Netanyahu said at a news conference that the war would end only when Israel had eliminated Hamas.

In Washington, President Biden said Netanyahu wasn’t doing enough to bring the hostages home. Britain announced that it would suspend some arms sales to Israel, a significant hardening of its position.

Netanyahu defended his plans for a continued Israeli presence on a strip of land in Gaza along the border with Egypt that he said was essential to Israel’s security.

Strikes: Disruptions were widespread yesterday, with many schools and banks and some municipal offices closed or cutting services.

A video: Hamas released what it said was a video of one of the hostages, Eden Yerushalmi, taken before she was killed.