Family members of Israeli hostages held in Gaza blocked highways in the center of Israel on Tuesday (26) in protest, asking for Hamas to end the war and free the remaining hostages.
Families called a national protest day to demand the return of all hostages under a ceasefire agreement.
Protesters exhibited several tracks. One said, “Save hostages, end up with war,” and another stated, “The war of lies is killing hostages and soldiers.”
Protests will be held throughout the day in Israel and at the “Praça dos hostage” in Tel Aviv, according to organizers.
*With information from CNN Americana
Understand the war in the Gaza Strip
The war in the Gaza track began on October 7, 2023, after Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel.
Combatants of the Palestinian radical group killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 hostages that day.
Then Israeli troops began a great offensive with bombing and land to try to recover hostages and end Hamas’s command.
The fighting resulted in the devastation of Palestinian territory and the displacement of about 1.9 million people, the equivalent of over 80% of the total population of the Gaza Strip, according to Unrwa (United Nations Palestinian refugees agency).
Since the beginning of the war, at least 61,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza. The ministry, controlled by Hamas, does not distinguish between civilian civilians and combatants in the count, but states that more than half of the dead are women and children. Israel states that at least 20,000 are combatants of the radical group.
Part of the hostages was recovered through two ceasefire agreements, while a minority was recovered through military actions.
Authorities believe that about 50 hostages are still in Gaza, and about 20 of them would be alive.
While war advances, the humanitarian situation gets worse every day in the Palestinian territory.
According to the UN, the number of people who have been killed by trying to get food from thousand since May, since May, when Israel changed the supply distribution system in the Gaza Strip.
With the widespread hunger for the lack of assistance in the Gaza Strip, reports of people dying for innion are daily.
Israel states that war may stop as well as Hamas surrenders, and the radical group demands improvement in the situation in Gaza so that the dialogue is resumed.
