JERUSALEM, Israel – Massive crowds of religious Jews blocked the entrance to Jerusalem for hours on Thursday, protesting a draft law, as eleven deceased Israeli hostages now remain in Gaza after Hamas returned another two bodies.

In the north, Israel is launching repeated military strikes to counter the potential rearming of the Hezbollah terror group.

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, known as Haredim, demonstrated against a proposed law to draft religious students into the army, as well as the government's arrest of Haredi draft dodgers. Hundreds clashed with police, and one teenager plunged to his death after climbing to the top of a crane.

One protester declared, "I’m here, and we are all here, to say one message, that we are one people, and we are all Jews. We love ea

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