Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Israel to demand a deal to release hostages, and in Jerusalem, demonstrators carrying signs with the faces of hostages shouted “Where are they?” through loudspeakers aimed at the building where a cabinet meeting is scheduled.
General strike in Israel seeks to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu for a deal with Hamas
The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure and Israel’s Histadrut trade union centre has called for a “general strike” to force the government to reach an agreement to release the hostages.
Also the leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, and the families of the hostages called for a strike. “They were alive! Netanyahu and his cabinet of death They decided not to rescue the hostages. I make a Call on the Histadrut trade union, large companies and local authorities to shut down the economy“, said Lapid.
As part of the strike, all the landings and takeoffs from Israel’s main airport, Ben Gurion, HE will paralyze starting at 08:00 in the morning.
The Israeli Ministry of Health reported that the autopsy results indicate that The hostages were killed by gunshot wounds at close range between Thursday and Friday. A commander of the Palestinian Islamist movement, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that several hostages were killed “by gunfire and bombing by the Israeli occupiers” and that Some of them were on the organisation’s list of people who would be released during the first phase, if a ceasefire agreement is reached.
The American president, Joe Biden, He pointed out that Among the bodies recovered was that of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and He said he was “devastated” but remained optimistic about the possibility of a truce.
Goldberg-Polin, The 23-year-old was one of 251 hostages taken by Hamas militants in their October 7 attack in southern Israel that sparked the current war in Gaza. The other five hostages recovered were identified by the Israeli military as Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and the sergeant Danino Ori.
At her son Almog’s funeral, Nira told mourners she hopes no other family has to go through the same thing. “Enough, no more. We paid the highest price. I hope we will be the last. From now on, only a deal to bring the hostages back,” she said.
Israel intensifies attacks in the West Bank
He Israeli Army launched a major operation on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, with bombings and armored vehicle raids in Jenin, Nablus, Tubas, Tulkarem, and in refugee camps, where armed groups fighting against Israel have a strong presence.
According to the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health, The Israeli army has killed at least 24 Palestinians in the West Bank since Wednesday.
Israeli police said three of their officers, two men and a woman, were killed Sunday “in a shootout” following an attack at the Tarkumiya checkpoint near Hebron. The Israeli army said in the afternoon that it had killed the attacker responsible for the shooting.
In Gaza City, an Israeli airstrike targeting police at a school housing displaced Palestinians left at least 11 dead, a spokesman for the territory’s Civil Defence said. The war in Gaza, which has plunged the 2.4 million inhabitants of the territory into a catastrophic humanitarian situation, broke out on 7 October.
The October 7 attack by the fighters of Hamas in Israel caused the Death of 1,205 peoplemostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures. In response, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas and launched a vast retaliatory offensive that has already left 40,738 dead in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
Source: Ambito
