About 20 activists from the Mothers Awake group demonstrated outside the home of IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, protesting what they called the “sacrificial zone” in Lebanon. The women said they were objecting to the continued fighting along the northern border and argued that soldiers' lives are being needlessly put at risk.
Dr. Rotem Sivan, speaking for the group, said four more fighters had recently “paid with their lives” in the Lebanese “zone of sacrifice.” She described herself as a mother of a soldier, a doctor, and a representative of thousands of “awake mothers,” and said, “We say today in a clear voice: enough with the wasting of our sons’ lives for nothing.”
Sivan added that leadership is measured by the ability to find solutions, not by turning the northern border into a broken war machine that spills the blood of their children. The group said it came to “cry out the cry of the mothers who do not sleep at night” and would not stop until what it called the abandonment ends.
During the protest, police confiscated a megaphone from one of the demonstrators.
