Rainbow flags, colourful floats and Bad Bunny on loudspeakers brought a festive mood to Tel Aviv for this year's Pride march, the first in full form since before the October 7 attack and the war in Gaza."I wanted to come last year, they cancelled it at the last minute, and the previous year too," Orion Tree, a nursery employee who joined the march, told AFP under the blazing sun of the coastal Israeli city."I'm 40 years old, and I've been waiting to go to Pride since I was a child. So I'm really happy to be here," he said.

Thousands of people joined the Tel Aviv Pride parade on 12 June, filling the city's seafront with rainbow flags, music and calls for greater LGBTQ+ rights in a region where…

Thousands of people joined the Tel Aviv Pride parade on 12 June, filling the city's seafront with rainbow flags, music and calls for greater LGBTQ+ rights in a region where…