The pressure from the families of the hostages on the Israeli government and in particular on Prime Minister B. is growingEnyamin Netanyahu. 100 days after the kidnapping on October 7th Last week, thousands of demonstrators from the Family Forum in Tel Aviv, who took to the streets for 24 hours, made strong calls from Hamas for more to be done to help the more than 130 prisoners still in Gaza to be released immediately.
A frustration that US President Joe Biden also shares who, according to Axios sources, has “lost patience” with Bibi. And because the Israeli leader rejected “most of the US government’s demands” about the war in Gaza. Above all, there is a feeling in Washington that the Israeli prime minister is “prolonging the war for political and personal reasons” and that the release of the abductees is “not his priority.”
In the evening, the cold shower brings the pain and the wait for relatives. Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Hamas Qassam Brigades, said the fate of many Israeli hostages had been “unknown in recent weeks.” “Many of them were most likely killed by Israeli fire” accuses Hamas.
“Hamas released a video of three hostages in the evening”. Haaretz reports on this and specifies that the three are “Noa Argamani, Yossi Sharabi and Itay Svirsky”. Noa, 26, was kidnapped from a party in Re'im and caught on video while being transported on a motorcycle toward the Gaza Strip. Itay Svirski, 38, from Tel Aviv, was kidnapped while visiting his family at Kibbutz Be'eri. His parents, Orit and Rafi Svirski, were murdered. Yossi Sharabi, 53, from Be'eri, was instead kidnapped from his home. ” The video comes exactly 100 days after October 7. In the video, a woman and two men can be seen speaking in Hebrew and calling on the Israeli authorities to take measures for their return home, writes France Presse, pointing out “It is not clear when the video was shot. The Israeli website Ynet instead refrains from reporting on the three's statements because “they were most likely dictated to them by their captors for the purpose of psychological terror and propaganda.”
Netanyahu's office denies the US theses and assures that the prime minister is “working with all means possible to release the abductees as quickly as possible.” But the centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid, unlike the prime minister, went on the attack at the invitation of the relatives of the hostages on the street. “Yahya Sinwar (Hamas leader) – he said – we can kill him even in February. And we will kill him sooner or later. But – he insisted – we must bring the hostages home immediately.”
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However, the harshest words came from some of the abductees' families. Ruby Chen, father of the Italian hostage, denounced that “the contract with the government was interrupted on October 7th.” Hagar Brodutch, a former hostage in Gaza who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza with her three children and her boyfriend, is accused of being “abandoned by the State of Israel. There will be no resurrection until all hostages are returned.”
However, not everyone shared the criticism of the government. Chaim Or, brother of Avinatan, who was kidnapped by Hamas along with his girlfriend Noa Argamani at the Nova Music Festival in Beeri, stressed that a division between right and left, religious and secular is not correct. The country, he claimed, “is now at war, but against the enemy, not against one or other of us.” And Defense Minister Yoav Gallant noted in his speech at the rally that Israel “will not let the world forget becomes. We will not leave them behind and we will not stop until Hamas is defeated.”
According to polls, the decline in popular support for Netanyahu's war policies has been underway for some time. The latest poll published by Israel Ha Yom, a pro-government newspaper, found that 57% of respondents were “dissatisfied” with Netanyahu’s actions. Instead, on the altar is the centrist leader who joined the wartime government, Benny Gantz, who confirms his steady rise with 67%.
In any case, the urgency surrounding the hostages appears to be increasingly unsettling the government and, according to some analysts, leading to a resumption of indirect negotiations with Hamas and at least a possible ceasefire.
And international diplomatic pressure is also growing: the EU invited Israel and Palestine to its council on January 22nd. However, the Israeli army remains convinced that the more the military push against Hamas increases, the greater the chance of the abductees being released. And it is concentrating its forces in operations against Hamas in the center in the Maghazi area and in the south of the Gaza Strip, where the death toll has risen to nearly 24,000 people, according to the Islamic faction. While the West Bank remains in turmoil, with three Palestinians killed in clashes with the army today, the front against Lebanon is intensifying with the killing of two Israelis, a mother aged around 70 and a son aged 45, launched by Hezbollah using an anti-tank missile. This was followed by a “major response” from the Israeli Air Force, which hit Hezbollah sites.
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“It is the Israelis who are afraid of waging war against us. We are always ready,” Nasrallah added.
“We continue to fight on our front lines to prevent Israel from starting a war against Lebanon,” Nasrallah continued. “The enemy’s threats are useless, they were useless in these first 100 days (of the war) and they will never be useful.”
Meanwhile, the death toll from the attack by Lebanese Shiite militiamen who fired an anti-tank missile from Lebanon at the village of Kfar Yuval rises to 2. An Israeli woman in her 70s, Mira Ayalon, and her son Barak Ayalon were killed. The woman's husband was also injured in the attack.
Netanyahu: “The conflict will last for many months”
“We have to deal with this war and it will last for many more months.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this at the Cabinet meeting to approve the state budget for 2024. “For this reason – he explained – we are preparing a war budget that forces us to do a lot spending more on defense than we expected.” “We're doing everything we can,” he concluded, “to get everyone home. These efforts will continue on an ongoing basis.”
Raisi: “Normalizing relations with Israel does not bring security”
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that those who seek normalization of relations with the “Zionist regime” should know that this does not create security for either the countries of the region or Israel. This was reported by the Irna news agency. At the Al-Aqsa Flood event, Raisi said Iran has made the Palestinian issue the “most important in the Islamic world” and praised Iran for leading the fight against Israel.
“Iran’s resistance has borne fruit,” he said, “the Palestinians have, on their own initiative, turned the war with stones into a war with missiles and drones.”
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The death toll in Gaza from the war between Israel and Hamas has risen to 23,968, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said.
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced the death of another soldier killed in combat in the southern Gaza Strip. The military spokesman announced this and said it was Andu'alem Kabeda (21 years old). The number of soldiers killed since the ground operation began in Gaza now stands at 188.
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