On Saturday night thousands of people took to the streets of Tel Aviv in support of the families of the hostages and to demand their release. The protests happened in a context in which the publication of three videos that show two Israeli hostages demacrated by the conditions in which the Palestinian group Hamás are maintained, in the Gaza Strip, revived the debate on their release.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, expressed his “deep consternation” for the last videos disseminated by Hamas of two Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, some images that shocked the country.
The publication since Thursday by Hamas and Islamic jihad, their ally, of three videos that show two demacred Israeli hostages, identified as Rom Bralavski and avoiding David, revived in Israel the debate about the need to quickly reach an agreement to release them.
In the images, the two captives appear very weak and thin, in a staging aimed at establishing parallelism with the current humanitarian situation in Gaza, threatened by a “generalized hunger” according to the UN.
Netanyahu asked the International Red Cross Committee (CICR) for help to provide food “and” Medical Care “to Israeli hostages.
“Nazis criminal abuses”
Netanyahu accused Hamas of deliberately killing the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, preventing them from receiving help “and urged the international community to” condemn the Nazi criminal abuses “of the Islamist movement.
The head of the diplomacy of the European Union, Kaja Kallas, denounced the “frightful images of Israeli hostages” and demanded her “immediate” liberation.
For his part, the minister of the extreme right of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, visited in the early morning the esplanade of the mosque-the mountain of the temple for the Jews-in East Jerusalem, a visit that Muslims usually consider a provocation.
“As we demonstrate that it is possible to exercise our sovereignty on the mountain of the temple, it is also possible to ‘conquer the entire Gaza Strip’ and ‘Promote voluntary emigration,'” said the minister.
Jordan, who acts as a custodian of the place, described the visit as “unacceptable provocation”, and Hamas called it “intensification of the ongoing aggression” against the Palestinian people.
With AFP
