Cassif also posted on X that the protest was "to demand justice," accusing the Israeli government of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. 

"Refuse to be occupiers! Resist the government of bloodshed!" read that post, also translated from Hebrew.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected agreeing to the recognition of a Palestinian state, even as he has signed on to Trump's 20-point peace plan, which is supposed to lead to a sovereign Palestine. 

Still, Trump has not joined the majority of the international community in presently recognizing a Palestinian state.

The protest against Trump's speech came as the president was marking the return to Israel of the last living hostages held by Hamas since they were kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the Palestinian militant group.

It marked a major milestone in the first phase of a deal to end the fighting in Gaza.

While a majority of Israelis favored a ceasefire deal with Hamas to secure the release of the hostages, the population is deeply divided over the way Israel might deal with Palestinians in their own aspiration for a Palestinian state. 

Only 21 percent of Israelis believe that Israelis and Palestinians can coexist peacefully, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center earlier this year. 

Odeh and Cassif are members of an Arab-Jewish political party that holds five seats in Israel's opposition. It is the second most popular Arab political party, but it generally receives a small number of seats in Israel's Knesset. Arabs in Israel make up about 20 percent of the population, split between Muslims and Christians. 

Arab voters in Israel typically have a lower voter turnout compared with Israeli Jews, but that has changed in recent years as Arab leaders like Odeh have encouraged political participation. Arab Israeli turnout in the 2022 elections reached 53.2 percent.