In a bid to re-launch the social protest, thousands of Israelis march across the Palestinian occupied territories late on Saturday.

In a bid to re-launch the social protest, thousands of Israelis march across the Palestinian occupied territories late on Saturday.

Protests took place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Afula, Israeli media reported, adding that the number of demonstrators has reached 10,000, in an attempt to revive last summer’s cost-of-living protest movement.

In Tel Aviv, protests caused major traffic jams as protesters blocked a busy intersection there, with firefighters were called in to douse a fire after protesters had set light to a large garbage bin.

Protesters shouted slogans, beat drums and pots, and blew whistles. The organizers, who said the protest has been approved by and coordinated with security forces, said citizens must call on the Israeli government to “open its eyes,” and called on the government to realize that “The money you will dole out in the upcoming budget is not yours, it’s the citizens’.”

Meanwhile in the occuied al-Quds, some 500 activists block a rail track there, shouting a slogan against the company that runs it. Police quickly moved the protesters off the track and the train continued on its way.

The protests came about a week after the Israeli police arrested almost 100 demonstrators in Tel Aviv following the detention of Dafni Leef, one of the leaders of the 2011 movement.

Leef and 11 other protesters were arrested on June 23 as they tried to put up tents in Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard in a bid to revive the social justice protests.

In July 2011, Leef, along with a group of young people, set up several tents on the boulevard to demand social justice and protest the high cost of living in the Zionist entity.