TEL AVIV, Nov 8: Some 200 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, saying the Israeli government had “blood on its hands” after the killing of 18 Palestinians, mostly women and children, by shell fire in Gaza.

“This government has blood on its hands,” read a sign carried by some of the protestors in front of the Israeli defense ministry following the attack in Gaza's northern town of Beit Hanun.

The demonstrators called for “dialogue in place of war”.

Some of them called for the resignation of Defense Minister Amir Peretz, a former Peace Now activist who has presided over a bloody four-month operation against militants in Gaza that has left more than 300 Palestinians dead.—AFP