By Guillermo Avarado

Around 100,000 people held a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel's capital, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the calling of early legislative elections and an agreement for the return of people held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

This is the second major march against the Zionist head of government, who is running out of political ground inside and outside his country six months after the beginning of the military operations of extermination against the Palestinian population.

Criticism against the genocide perpetrated in the Middle East increased as humanitarian aid for children, women and the elderly, who became a favorite target of the saturation bombardments against the narrow and overpopulated strip, is prevented.

The reaction was heightened after the death, not at all accidental, of seven members of a humanitarian organization while they were transporting food and medical supplies to help those who lost their belongings.

Even the United States, Netanyahu's loyal ally, was forced to criticize its political godson and demand respect for the lives of civilians.

It is in this context that the Israeli government's decision to withdraw its troops, except for a heavily armed battalion, from the southern Gaza Strip, under the pretext of allowing the entry of humanitarian aid, can be explained.

In reality, more than that, it is a tactical move by the Zionist army to save its furniture in the face of the international repudiation, which is very active among the peoples, and which is being joined little by little and sometimes reluctantly by several European governments.

The head of the Israeli government made it very clear when he affirmed that the war will only end with the total occupation of Gaza and, better still for the Zionists, if the Palestinians abandon that redoubt and join a new Nakba, as the forced exile is known after the artificial creation of Israel.

In the meantime, Netanyahu needs to give himself a truce to appease the Jewish population, which accuses him of giving more importance to his political ambitions than to the lives of the 129 hostages, 34 of whom died during the Zionist bombardment of Palestinian cities and hospitals.

This and no other is the real reason for the withdrawal of troops from southern Gaza, where they have already caused great devastation and threaten more than 1.5 million people with extermination, either by gunfire or by hunger and disease, while the international community does little, if anything, to put an end to this barbarism.