The agreement with the witness and former communications minister Shlomo Filber was annulled by the court at the same time that the Israeli operation in Gaza was underway.
In a brief statement to the press, the State Prosecutor's Office said that Filbert was informed of the decision, which was taken in accordance with the position of Attorney General Ghali Baharav-Miara“after gathering evidence indicating that he violated his witness agreement in the presence of the State“.
Netanyahu is under scrutiny in the Bezeq case, named after the telecommunications company, and will be questioned for the first time over information provided to police by Nir Hefetz, a key witness and confidant of the Israeli prime minister. He is accused of favoring Bezeq in exchange for positive coverage in the company-controlled media.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against Benjamin Netanyahu as the country entered its seventh month of war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. In Tel Aviv, 100,000 people, organizers said, gathered at a street intersection named after a huge 2023 rally against a judicial reform plan pushed by the prime minister but which was not completed.
Holding cartoons of “Bibi” and chanting slogans hostile to the leader of the right-wing Likud party, accused in trials, mainly of corruption, they demanded his immediate resignation and “elections now“, Correspondents of the French news agency report.
The protesters then joined others calling for a negotiated solution to free the 129 hostages still being held, 34 of whom the military said were dead. About 250 hostages were kidnapped on October 7 during an unprecedented Hamas offensive in southern Israel.
Clashes with security forces led to at least one arrest and injury to a policewoman, according to police, who also announced, without giving details, the arrest of a motorist who slightly injured three people when he drove his car into a crowd as protesters were leaving. .
Demonstrations took place in about 50 other places. In Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, police clashed with demonstrators trying to approach Netanyahu's private residence and one person was arrested, Israeli media reported.
Speaking at a demonstration in Kfar Saba, northeast of Tel Aviv, opposition leader Yair Lapid, a centrist, also called for new parliamentary elections. “They haven't learned anything. They haven't changed. Bye we will not kick them out, they will not allow this country to move forward” he said before leaving for Washington to meet with senior US officials.
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