Thousands of protesters took the streets in Tel Aviv and other places in Israel on Saturday to urge the government to reach an agreement to release the hostages held by the Islamist Hamas. People gathered throughout the country, displaying Israeli flags and signs demanding the immediate release of the hostages in the Gaza Strip, while also calling for new elections. Police officers and demonstrators clashed in Tel Aviv. At a meeting at the headquarters of the Israeli army in Tel Aviv, relatives accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of abandoning the hostages. “Netanyahu and his partners in…