Agence France-Presse journalists at the scene said that the protesters, some of whom wore surgical masks in line with Corona virus regulations, carried banners in Arabic in support of the Prophet.
Jaffa:
About 200 people protested in the backyard of the home of the French ambassador to Israel on Saturday in protest against President Emmanuel Macron after he pledged not to "abandon the caricatures" of the Prophet Muhammad.
Agence France-Presse journalists at the scene said that the protesters, some of whom wore surgical masks in line with Corona virus regulations, carried banners in Arabic in support of the Prophet.
The demonstration took place in the Arab-majority Jaffa area of Tel Aviv after evening prayers.
One of the demonstrators, Amin Al-Bukhari, accused Macron of playing "the extreme right."
Macron said, Wednesday, that a French teacher was beheaded in the open air at his college in Paris earlier this month, "was killed because of the fact that Islamists prefer our future."
A teacher, Samuel Patti, was killed after he showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a classroom driving him on freedom of expression.
"We will not give up the cartoons now," Macron said, declaring that the Islamists "would in no way have" the future of France.
Speaking in the open air about the authentic abode of French ambassador Eric Danon, Bukhari said, “We must admire Moses among the Jews, we must appreciate Jesus Christ, who is also our prophet, and we want to admire the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace.”
The assembly dispersed except for the accident.
Visual depictions of the prophets are strictly prohibited in Islam, and mocking or insulting the Prophet Muhammad is punishable by death in some Islamic countries.
Calls are increasing for a boycott of French goods in the Arab world and beyond, in response to Macron's comments.
Among those who condemned Macron's statements was the Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.
"Insulting religions and the prophets is not a matter of freedom of expression, but rather promotes a culture of hate," Hamas said in a statement, warning of "unspecified" consequences.
The smaller Islamic Jihad, which operates similarly in Palestinian Gaza, said insulting Islam and its prophet crossed a "red line" and "cannot be tolerated."
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