“If we do not bring them back now, we will lose them forever.” The recent and devastating images of some hostages reduced to skeletons, spread by Hamas propaganda, further exasperated family members, who called all the Israelis to mobilization. And that part of the country that criticizes the management of war by the government responded present. Hundreds of thousands of people have crossed their arms in a general strike and took to the streets in different cities, to say no to the new occupation plan of Gaza that would put the safety of the approximately twenty kidnapped with risks at risk still alive.
“So do a favor to Hamas,” Benyamin Netanyahu replied, flanked by the executive’s hawks, on a tension day marked by clashes and dozens of arrests. “Close the country with a clear appeal: bring back the 50 hostages (then included the bodies of the killed, editor’s note) and end the war”, had been the request to Israeli citizens launched by the group of activists of the Family Forum in view of this Sunday, on the first day of the working week. And the strike and the processions were taken as scheduled. A Tel Aviv yes an enormous Israeli flag with the portraits of the kidnapped is waved in the square, renamed “Piazza degli Ostaggi” and theater of the cyclical anti-government events, crowded with over 200,000 people. Events also in other cities, with the blocking of the main road arteries, including the highway that connects Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Here demonstrators have affected themselves outside the residence of Netanyahu, with the slogan “all reported behind” and “stop the war”. Hundreds of reservists who had been to the front were united to protests. Not everything was smooth: Tafferugli broke out with the security forces lined up in a massive way finished with about forty stops “for public order disorder”, reported the police. The first of the government to make himself heard was Bezalel Smotrich.
The far -right leader has stamped the strike as “a harmful campaign that makes Hamas’s game, buries the hostages in tunnels and tries to make Israel surrender to his enemies”. “Those who ask for the end of the war are not only stiffening the position of Hamas and delaying the release of our hostages, but are also ensuring that the horrors of October 7 will repeat themselves and that we will have to fight an endless war”, Eco Netanyahu has gone. Immediate replica of the family members of the kidnapped: «Instead of deceiving public opinion, spreading voices and differing us, report our loved ones with an agreement and put an end to the war. This is the only decision that the Israeli people ask, and it is the only possible decision ». The families of the hostages are worried above all for the employment plans approved in recent days by the safety cabinet.
The IDF “will focus the operations in Gaza City, one of the last bastions of the Palestinian Islamist movement”, explained the chief of staff Eyal Zamir, while his men are preparing for the massive evacuation of the residents to the south by preparing curtains and others equipped for the displaced people. Hamas, on the other hand, defined these alleged humanitarian operations as a “pretext” to “cover a brutal crime that the occupation forces are preparing to perform”. Waiting for the land offensive, the aviation continues to bomb the main urban center of the strip. According to Jazeera, a raid in the early hours of the morning hit the hospital at Ahli, causing several victims. The version of the IDF is that a militian cell was targeted outside the building.