Demonstrators sang, delivered speeches, and marched past the courthouse, which is hearing a case by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide during its war on the besieged enclave.
As the military plans were put into action during a key diplomatic visit by President Biden, it underscores how seriously the Israeli government is treating the cessation of hostilities.
The natural course of grieving is distorted here, a year after the Oct. 7 attacks. This tight-knit Israeli community near the Gaza border is digging up its dead from temporary graves further away and reburying them back home, where it is safer to gather now, a year into the Gaza war.