Israel resumes attacks and breaks the respite, causing hundreds of deaths, including women and children. At the same time, the families of the Israelites who have been killed in captivity ask for urgency to return to negotiations. “There are still 59 hostages that are arrested in Gaza, subject to unimaginable horrors – hunger, torture, currents.
While Israel’s bombings swept the Gaza Strip again-breaking the ceasefire agreement-with night attacks that, according to local sources, made more than 400 dead (including women and children) this Tuesday, the family members (Israelites) killed in captivity united to demand an “immediate return” to negotiations.
At the Knesset door, the Israeli Parliament, Merav Svrsky and Ayelet Svatitzky, who lost their siblings during captive time in Gaza, gave voice to an appeal that increasingly seems to echo in a political void. It is that the ceasefire, which presents itself as the only viable exit to avoid more deaths, especially in Gaza, remains a diplomatic impasse: Hamas requires the total end of military operations in Gaza and the removal of Israel troops; And on the other hand, the government of Netanyahu refuses any truce that does not imply the total destruction of the Islamite group’s military infrastructure.
Merav Svrsky, whose brother, Itay, was killed in captivity, and whose parents would be murdered in the attack on October 7, 2023, remembered outside the Knesset the price, “irreversible”, that the families of hostages have paid: “We paid our lives.
Ayelet Svatitzky recalled how his own “tireless pilgrimage” was in recent months, trying to sensitize “the world” to the situation of hostages. The brother, Nadav, was kidnapped at Kibbutz Nirim. The mother was also – but would be released in November last year. But Nadav remained in captivity and has been killed by Hamas in the summer of 2024. The other brother of Ayelet, Roi, was soon killed on the day of the attack in October 2023. And buried with dignity, ”said Ayelet Svatitzky, thrilled.
And more said the Israeli woman who lost mother and two brothers: “We should do everything, everything that is within our reach to bring them back.
Another appeal came from Noam Peri, daughter of the hostage Chaim Peri, killed during the captivity. And with a recipient: US President Donald Trump. Noam praised Trump’s role in the past in the reunification of hostage families. I was very brief but emotional, Noam Peri’s appeal: “We need your leadership [Donald Trump]together with an urgent action of the world. We need your leadership to ensure an agreement already. ”
For now, and with the attacks (and the death) to return to the Gaza Strip, diplomacy seems to be standing still and any kind of ceasefire, temporary but lasting, does not seem to come. Egypt and Qatar are trying to intermediate a new agreement, which allows the release of hostages, but the demands on both sides (Israel and Hamas) remain unconcilious. On Israel’s side, Benjamin Netanyahu, and despite the pressure of this chartered families, it seems even more pressured by the government’s most radical wing – and will postpone a commitment that means some kind of Hamas concession.
