The families of the Israeli hostages in Loop They set up a protest camp last night outside the prime minister’s second residence, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Israeli city of Caesarea, where he usually spends weekends. They ask him to go beyond military action and make a pact to remove the captives.
“The families They are fed up, we ask for an agreement right now“, He said Forum of Families of Hostages and Missing Persons, after the level of protests increased these days to pressure for the release of the 136 captives who remain in Loopof them, just over a hundred alive.
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Dozens of people, many of them relatives and friends of the hostages, began the mobilization last night, setting up tents in front of the residence of Netanyahu in which they spent the night and this Saturday They continue the protest.
In recent weeks, distrust towards the Government and its promise that the release of captives is a priority has increased, something that is viewed with increasing skepticism as Hamas announces the death of more hostages in the Stripeand while Netanyahu ensures that only the path of military pressure may lead to his release.
“The murders have already run out of time. He Cabinet de Guerra must not miss any opportunity to reach an agreement that makes everyone return home”he remarked Hostage Families Forum.
According to him, the protesters will continue in front of the residence of Netanyahu until he comes out to listen to them “and commits to leading an international summit with the participation of all the countries involved in the crisisuntil this is resolved and all the hostages are returned home.”
In the attack on Israel committed by Hamas on October 7, where as 1,200 people on Israeli soilthe Palestinian militias also took as captives Loop about 240 people. Of this, 105 were released during the last week of November, as part of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
Hamas, for its part, insists that the rest of the hostages will be released when the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are released and the attacks on Gaza, which have left almost 25,000 dead in the enclave.
Gadi Eisenkotformer Chief of Staff of the Army, Minister of the Emergency Government and member of the Israeli War Cabinet, assured in an interview that the hostages in Gaza would only be saved with an agreement, contradicting Netanyahu and ensuring that Israel was far from achieving its military objectives against Hamas.
Criticism in Israel of Netanyahu’s management of the war is also increasing as it drags on with no end in sight, and as soldiers die, almost two hundred since the start of the ground invasion on October 27.
Given this, Eisenkot He also urged this week to call elections to restore the confidence of the population in the face of the institutionswhich he considers has now cracked.
