Reached the dramatic milestone of the 700 days of war, Israel intensifies the military campaign on Gaza City, ordering the IDF to pave the skyscrapers of the city. And so, like a sand castle, in a triple raid the al-Mushtaha tower has crumbled on the ground, covering smoke and debris the surrounding curtains.
“In the building, Hamas had installed infrastructures used to conduct attacks,” explained the IDF, while the defense minister Israel Katz stressed that with that raid, Israel “opened the hell door to Gaza”. And “when the door opens, it no longer closes. The activity of the IDF will increase, until Hamas’ killers and rapists will not accept the conditions set by Israel to end the war ».
A ferocious threat, arrived while Hamas wanted to remember that in the strip there are still live Israeli hostages, who risk dying at any moment: in a new video published by the militiamen, two of them, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Alon Ohel, are located just in Gaza City. And they ask – probably stuffed by their own jailers – that “all this ends”. In the 28 second movie, Gilboa-Dalal says that the date is August 28, 2025 and that it is held by the al-Qaassam brigades to Gaza City. It has short hair, a dark blue shirt and an anguished expression, while covering your face with your hands. In a part of the movie, it is sitting on the rear seat of a car on the surface.
«We want to return to our families. Please report it back, “he says. The images continue with the meeting of Gilboa-Dalal with Alon Ohel, for the first time filmed on video since he was taken hostage. But the family members of the second hostage did not authorize the spread of the images that portray him: “We were shocked to see Alon’s conditions,” they said, denouncing that the kidnapped young man “lost his view from his right eye”.
Of the 251 hostages kidnapped during the attack of 7 October 2023, 47 are still in Gaza. Of these, 25 are certainly dead, according to the Israeli army, while the uncertainty reigns on the conditions of the remaining. Meeting the family members of the two kidnapped of the video, Netanyahu has made it clear that “no video of malicious propaganda will weaken our determination or will distract us from our will to achieve our goals”, which remain the same: “The release of all the hostages, both alive and died; the disarmament of Hamas; the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip; Israeli safety control in the Gaza strip; and the establishment of an alternative civil administration that does not represent a threat to Israel ». No effect seems to have had Hamas’ announcement to be ready for a global agreement for the end of the conflict: “War can end immediately to the conditions established by Israel”, is the position of the government that continues to hammer Gaza City, forcing the civilians to escape or death.
The IDF has in fact announced that the raids on the buildings of the city will continue, while Hamas has condemned attacks as “crimes against humanity”, part of a “criminal plan” aimed at forcing the population to forced displacements. A theme, the latter, a clash, increasingly heated even between Israel and Egypt: “The displacement is a red line, we will not allow it to happen, it would be the end of the cause, Palestinian, “said the Foreign Minister of Cairo Badr Abdelatty, returning to speak of” genocide “taking place in the strip. International who have the legal qualification to do it, “underlined the Union spokesman.