Protesters in Tel Aviv demand fresh elections

Tens of thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday as the Gaza conflict reached its half-year mark.

Organizers said about 100,000 people converged at a Tel Aviv crossroads renamed "Democracy Square "since mass protests against controversial judicial reforms last year.

Chanting "Elections now", protesters called for his resignation as the conflict in Gaza entered its seventh month on Sunday, Agence France-Presse reported.

Rallies were also held in other cities, with Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid taking part in one in Kfar Saba before his departure for talks in Washington.

"They haven't learned anything, they haven't changed," he said at that rally.

"Until we send them home, they won't give this country a chance to move forward."

Israeli media said clashes had broken out between protesters and police at the Tel Aviv rally and police said one protester had been arrested.

Later, the protesters in Tel Aviv were joined by families of Gaza hostages and their supporters.

Demonstrators were to take to the streets again on Sunday, with a rally planned in Jerusalem.

Thousands of people protested in Morocco's commercial capital Casablanca late on Friday against "massacres" in the Gaza Strip and against the country's normalization of ties with Israel.

Agencies Via Xinhua