The pressure on the prime minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, so that it allows the release of hostages in the hands of Hamas, grows again. Some 60,000 people, according to the Hostage and Disappeared Families Forum, took to the streets in Tel Aviv this Saturday to demand high fire in stagnant negotiations. The concentration had more assistants than usual after several Palestinian militias in the enclave, including Hamas, published during which several families are seen.
Given the increase in that the fire reaches a high, Netanyahu, said this Sunday that Israel has nothing to do with the hunger of those captives, since “it is allowing the entry of humanitarian aid”, and has accused Hamas of a cruelty “without limits” for “depriving of the Israeli hostages” and documented it in a cynical and cruel way. “
The high EU representative for foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, has joined the complaints against Hamas this Sunday. Kallas has described as “frightful” the images disseminated by the militia and has accused the Palestinian group of “barbarism.” “All hostages must be released immediately and without conditions,” said the European representative: “Hamas must disarm and end their governance in Gaza.” At the same time, Kallas has demanded, “it must be allowed to reach those who need it” in the Palestine Strip.
Both Hamas and Islamic jihad, two Palestinian armed groups that retain Israeli captives in their power ―50, of which it is estimated that 20 are still alive – have published three different videos in which the hostages are seen to avoid David and Rom Braslavski in a deplorable state. In the images, the two young people, 24 -year -old, terrified and in very degraded, pale and converted physical and bones are seen. According to the captors, the videos seek to demonstrate that the famine caused by the Israeli blockade to humanitarian aid, almost total in force since the first of March, has made it impossible to provide adequate attention.
“The help that comes to Gaza, aimed at relieving suffering, must also come to avoid all other hostages,” said Ilay David, brother of this captive, said Efe. “We cannot, we should not allow Hamas to have life and death with such a barbarism without control,” he appealed in the middle of the crowd while supplying the Israel government to do what was necessary to free the captives.
Ofir Braslavski, father of the hostage Rom Braslavski, told Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Enough! He is a leader, and a leader must make decisions. So he already makes the decision: put an end to war and bring here all,” he demanded.
The publication of videos by Hamas has been a usual tactic during the war, initiated in October 2023 with the attack of the Israel militia, in order to press in the negotiations for a high fire. Currently, those efforts are stagnant and the process does not advance.
That block has taken the special envoy of the White House in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, to visit Israel this week. Precisely, he met for several hours with some of the families of the captives this Saturday, but sources present at the meeting have assured that he did not contribute relevant news.
