After a fresh wave of raids into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a forum bringing together any of the hostage families estimated that the government, deciding to resume the fighting, actually withdrew from the truce, thus sacrificing the lives of the kidnapped.
— I'm mad at those who think resuming fights is good. How can you not perceive to us? She spoke on Saturday evening at a rally in Tel Aviv, Doron Steinbrecher, who spent 471 days in Hamas captivity and was released in January as part of a truce.
Since January, 30 surviving hostages have been released and 8 bodies have been released. However, Israel and Hamas could not scope agreement on the extension of the truce.
The Israeli government pressed for an extension of the first phase of the ceasefire in exchange for the release of further hostages and a promise to negociate a permanent truce in the future. Hamas wants the release of the kidnapped to be a warrant of the end of the war, as foreseen by the first agenda of the agreement, rejected by Israel.
More than half a 1000 people have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since Tuesday, most women and children.
“Stop fighting, go back to negotiations and full implement an agreement that will enable all hostages to be returned, even at the cost of ending the war,” says the appeal of the freed hostages and their families announced on Friday. It stresses that further fighting exposes the prisoners and shifts distant the imagination of releasing them as part of the exchange.
“The release of all hostages remains 1 of the main targets of war”
The government in Jerusalem emphasizes that he started a fresh offensive due to the fact that Hamas refused to agree to extend the truce on Israeli terms. Netanjahu assures that the release of all hostages remains 1 of the main targets of war.
According to Israeli army estimates, 24 hostages and 35 bodies stay in captivity to Palestinian terrorist organizations. The prisoners are Hamas's main leverage and many commentators believe that this group will most likely not agree to release all hostages without satisfactory guarantees.
Netanyahu critics besides make accusations that returning to war is simply a politically motivated decision. The truce with Hamas was opposed by the extremist judaic organization Force, which after its conclusion came out of a shaky coalition, and on Tuesday announced that she was returning to government.
