The legal challenges came as reports indicated that the Histadrut is considering extending the strike to Tuesday as well. The first proceeding is an injunction request to Israel's Labor Court to end the strike. The request was filed by the State Attorney's Office on behalf of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, with the consent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Smotrich's argument was that the strike was intended to influence government policy on an issue unrelated to worker's rights or other issues that directly affected workers, and was thus an abuse of power and illegal. The second proceeding was an appeal to the High Court of Justice against the legal status of a number of family members of fallen soldiers from the Gvura Forum, and of the Tikva Forum, which includes a number of families of hostages in Hamas captivity. The Gvura forum filed a separate appeal to the Labor Court as well.