After Israel did not send a delegation to negotiate the release of the hostages in the Gaza Strip, the relatives’ concerns grew. Thousands of people are protesting against the government again.
Several thousand people demonstrated in downtown Tel Aviv on Saturday evening for a negotiated solution to release the hostages held by the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip. There was also loud criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and calls for new elections. “Negotiate now, resign later,” read signs and banners.
The father of one of the hostages said the government cared more about its own survival than the hostages. He called on the government to agree to a ceasefire in exchange for the hostages’ return.
No Israeli delegation to Cairo
As the Kan television station reported on Saturday, citing a government representative, Israel, unlike the Islamist Hamas, is not sending a team to the negotiations in Cairo for the time being. Israel will not send a delegation to Egypt until Hamas responds to the deal proposal, the report said.
“Netanyahu is once again trying to torpedo the only chance we have to rescue the hostages,” said a statement from the hostages’ relatives. An Israeli offensive in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip would be a “death sentence” for the hostages, emphasized the brother of a man held in Gaza. Netanyahu cannot remain head of government “with the blood of 132 hostages on his hands.”
Opposition leader Jair Lapid said the government should send a negotiating team to Cairo that night “and tell them not to return without a deal.”
Source: Stern
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