Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this Saturday, August 2, “dismayed” by the last videos transmitted by Hamas de los Haranes in the Gaza Strip and spoke with families, in a country horrified by these images.
The publication since Thursday by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, its ally, of three videos that show two Israeli hostages, demacred, revived in Israel the debate on the need to reach an agreement as quickly as possible to release them.
Tens of thousands of people gathered this Saturday night in Tel Aviv to demand the launch of the hostages, an illustration of the emotion that the country took again.
“The prime minister expressed a deep dismay for the recordings disseminated by the terrorist organization Hamas and told families that efforts to take all our hostages to continue,” said his services.
In the propaganda images of the two Islamist groups, the two captives seemed very weakened and very emaciated, in a staging aimed at drawing parallel to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, threatened with “generalized famine” according to the UN.
The sequence of a hollow hostage, the shovel in the hand, the sandy floor of the narrow tunnel where it is stopped, pretending to dig its own tomb, particularly shocked.
“Revealed and desperate”
Benjamin Netanyahu, according to his office, “had a long conversation [samedi soir] With hostage families, Rom Breslevski and Avyatar David, “both exhibited in these last videos.” Hamas’ cruelty has no limits, “he said, denouncing a” cynical and odious “staging, and again accusing Hamas” also deliberately hunger to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, preventing them from receiving help. “
President Isaac Herzog and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Saar, reacted in the same direction, the latter announced “transmitted an urgent message to his colleagues worldwide” and have “initiated a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council” on the subject.
The head of diplomacy of the European Union, Kaja Kallas, denounced on Sunday “terrible images of Israeli hostages.” France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot also moved these “vile images”, while Emmanuel Macron denounced “cruelty abject” and “an inhumanity without limit” by Hamas.
This Sunday, August 3, the beginning of the week in Israel, the titles of the press remained widely dedicated to the theme: “hungry, demacrate and desperate” (Yidth Ahronoth), “Hell in Gaza” (Ma’ariv), “Cruelty without limit” (Israel Hayom), “Netanyahu is not in a hurry” (Haaretz).
Images in support of his telegram account, the Minister of National Security of the extreme right, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was early on the esplanade of mosques in East Jerusalem, a visit usually seen as a provocation of Muslims.
“In the same way that we have shown 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” encourage voluntary emigration. “This is the answer we must give to the atrocious videos” of Hamas, released to the minister, filmed in the esplanade.
Gravats expand
Of the 251 people kidnapped on October 7, 2023 during the bloody attack of Hamas against the Gaza Strip, 49 remain retained, 27 of which were declared dead by the Israeli army.
The attack resulted in the death of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count made from official data.
Israeli reprisals have left at least 60,430 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the UN.
Israel, who has been begging the more than two million Palestinians from Gaza since the beginning of the war, raised the total humanitarian block in early May that imposed in early March, but only authorizes the entry of amounts of limited aid, considered insufficient by the UN.
An AFP journalist, embedded on Saturday in a French army plane that made help in Gaza, could see the scope of destruction in the north of the Palestinian territory, around the port.
If you were not allowed to film Gaza, you could see that there is almost nothing of certain districts, transformed into debris and shaved by the bombings. Other districts are still standing, but dotted with areas of impact where buildings were put on the ground.
According to the civil defense, 19 people were killed on Sunday by Israeli fires or bombings, including nine, who expected food in southern Gaza, near a center of the GHF, the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza, supported by Israel and the United States.
“The soldiers opened fire against people. He was there, no one was a threat,” said a witness, Jabo al-Sha’er, 31, interviewed by phone by AFP. “They just want to kill,” he accused. At noon, the army had not commented on the incident.
An employee of the Palestinian red was killed during the night in an Israeli strike that attacked the siege of the organization in Khan Younès in southern Gaza, according to the same organization, informing 51 of its members killed since the beginning of the Israeli offensive.
“We are not aware of a shot this morning west of Khan Younes,” the army told AFP.
Source: BFM TV
