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For the second night in a row, several thousand people demonstrated in Jerusalem late Wednesday against the sacking of Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had dismissed Gallant on Tuesday, saying he had lost trust in him. The demonstrators took to the streets on Wednesday, calling on Netanyahu to reverse the dismissal, Israeli media reported. Protesters also called for a compromise with the militant Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip to free the approximately 100 Israeli hostages still held there, and for the abandonment of planned exemptions from compulso…