Municipal services in Tel Aviv will participate in a half-day strike tomorrow as a sign of solidarity with the hostages and their families, the municipality announced on its Facebook page, Reuters reported, citing BTA.
The strike will be held along with several municipalities across Israel after the bodies of six Israeli hostages were returned to Israel from Gaza.
Earlier today, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called for a strike to pressure the government to reach an agreement to release hostages in the Gaza Strip.
Lapid, who is also the country's former prime minister, called on all Israelis "whose heart was broken this morning" to join a major protest to be held later today in Tel Aviv. He also called on the main trade union, enterprises and municipalities to strike.
His statement came after the bodies of six hostages were found in Gaza.
The head of the powerful trade union federation "Histadrut", which represents hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, called today for a general strike to start tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. local (and Bulgarian) time, with the aim of proving pressure on the government to make a deal to return the Israeli hostages still held by "Hamas" in Gaza.
Union leader Arnon Bar-David, whose union represents nearly 800,000 workers in fields such as health care, transportation and banking, called on all civilian workers to join the strike and said Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv will stop working tomorrow at 8:00 am.
Bar-David indicated that for now the strike will only be scheduled for tomorrow and sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to return the slain hostages alive.
"Hamas" is still holding 101 hostages, but Israeli authorities believe nearly a third of them are already dead, according to Reuters.