Protesters across Israel call for Netanyahu to agree hostage deal – as it happened

The head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union, which represents hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, called for a general strike beginning at 6am (03:00 GMT) on Monday to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, Reuters reported.

Arnon Bar-David called on all civilian workers to join the strike and said Ben Gurion airport, Israel’s main air transport hub,…