Saturday evening, after 21 days of war and only a few hours before the National Security Cabinet voted for a "unilateral ceasefire" in Gaza - while maintaining Israeli military presence throughout the Strip - around three thousand people marched from Tel Aviv into Jaffa in opposition to Operation "Cast Lead".

Video by Israel Puterman

Protesters met after sundown at the Charles Clore Park, by Tel Aviv's esplanade, and marched in a lively, spirited, raucous procession upwards into Jaffa, where they rallied under sporadic light rains in Gan Hashnaim park (in the Palestinian-populated part of Yefet Street) and stood silent for one minute in remembrance of this war's victims.

Palestinian and Israeli protesters at the march against the war, Jaffa

The march, organized by a coalition of various groups with coordination and support from the leadership of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, was comprised of several blocks of marchers, including a strong Anarchist "Pink & Black" one, complete with a loud, radical percussion group. About one hundred Anarchists marched behind a large banner with the word "Liberty" on it, and were quickly joined by many Palestinian demonstrators, shouting slogans alternately in Hebrew and Arabic. In addition to the unifying message of the march, which was a call to end the military offensive, the siege on Gaza and the killing on both sides, the banners and slogans of the Anarchist block did not shy away from pinpointing Zionist ideology as the root cause of Israel's military aggression.

The demonstration proceeds up Yefet street

Braving Tel Aviv's thuggish Special Patrol Unit police officers, who kept a close eye on the march (many with their faces covered), as well as the more widespread, political clampdown on dissent (according to police, 763 demonstrators, the vast majority of them Israeli-Palestinian, were arrested in Israel since the war began), both Jewish and Palestinian Israelis showed once more that they won't keep quiet in the face of Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people, whether through siege, air raids, Apartheid walls, military occupation or wanton massacres, in Gaza or anywhere else.