Tens of thousands of Israelis They left this Saturday to the streets of Tel Aviv to protest the decision of the Israel government to expand your offensive in the Gaza Strip and to ask for a High Fire Agreement y hostage release With the Islamist group Hamas. “This is not just a military decision. It could be a death sentence for the people we want more,” he said during the protest Lishay Miran Laviwife of the Israeli hostage Omri look, in statements shared by the forum of hostage and missing families.
According to the forum, which represents the majority of relatives of the kidnapped in the attacks of Hamás del October 7, 2023, More than 100,000 people Sand today added to the weekly protest in the known as Plaza de los Hostos de Tel Aviv. In images of the event you can see streets full of people, many waving the Israeli flag o yellow flagsthe color of the movement to ask for the release of hostages.
Nira Sharabi, Yossi Sharabi Israeli hostage, who died in an air attack by the Israeli army against Gaza, said that her husband lost her life “due to the intensity of the conflict.” “Yossi could have returned to us if they had brought everyone back and decisively (…). No woman should experience what I have experienced,” Sharabi said to the protesters.
Expand the offensive
The security cabinet of the Israeli government, with authority to make decisions about the course of the war, approved a plan of the Prime Minister, on Friday, Binyamine Netanyahuto expand its offensive and conquer the city of Gaza, where they are estimated to live one million Palestiniansmany displaced.
The plan has been rejected by the families of the Israeli hostages that continue in the strip (30 dead and 20 liveaccording to Israel’s estimates) and criticized by the Army, which fears that the expansion of fighting Put at risk the lives of hostages and lead to large casualties between the ranks of armed forces that carry almost two years fighting.
The Palestinian authority strongly criticized on Saturday the decision of the Israeli government to expand its military operations in Gaza, while asking the international community to press to allow humanitarian entry. According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, the presidential spokesman of the Palestinian authority, Nabil Abu Rudeinehaffirmed that the measures of the Israeli government constitute “a challenge and an unprecedented provocation to the international will to achieve peace and stability.” He also asked “the International Community, led by the UN Security Council, which urgently forces the Occupying state To cease your aggression, allow the entry of help and work diligently so that the Palestine state He can assume all his responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, “Wafa said.
In the same vein, Russia condemned the Israeli plan on Saturday, ensuring that it could aggravate the “Humanitarian catastrophe “ In the Palestinian enclave. “The application of such decisions and plans, which cause condemnation and rejection, runs the risk of worsening the already dramatic situation In the Palestinian enclave, which presents all the signs of a humanitarian catastrophe, “said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Relations in a statement.
