A few hours after the funerals of several hostages killed in the Gaza Strip, people across Israel are protesting again. They are demanding an agreement to release the hostages.
At demonstrations in several parts of Israel, thousands of people demanded an agreement on the release of the Israeli hostages still held captive by the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Protests with several hundred participants also took place near the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a few hours after the funeral of a dead hostage. “Your decisions will lead to their deaths,” Israeli media quoted a man whose brother is still being held in the Gaza Strip as saying.
US President Joe Biden had previously described Netanyahu’s efforts to reach an agreement on the release as insufficient. In a statement published in the evening, relatives of the hostages praised Biden’s efforts to reach an agreement on the release of the hostages and called on Netanyahu to show similar determination. “The people of Israel will not allow the nearly eleven months of neglect of the hostages to continue,” it said. “Every day could be their last, as the killing of the six hostages in recent days has shown.”
The Israeli army announced on Sunday morning that it had discovered the bodies of six hostages in an underground tunnel in the south of the Gaza Strip. According to media reports, the Israeli Health Ministry said the hostages had been shot at close range about 48 to 72 hours before the autopsy.
Source: Stern
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