Stormy meeting - increasing pressure on Netanyahu

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The war between Israel and Hamas  

 

The pressure is increasing on Netanyahu: the Knesset can vote on the confidence  

Requires immediate agreement to free the hostages: Otherwise they come home in coffins  

 

Anna Sjogren 

 

Updated 13.48 | Published 11.40  

 

The pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu is increasing. 

  

Families of the hostages in Gaza broke into the Knesset on Monday and demanded that politicians do more to bring them home. 

 

Parliament can soon vote on the Prime Minister's confidence.  

 

After more than three months of war in Gaza, over 130 people are still being held hostage by Hamas.

 

Relatives of those captured have long appealed to Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to do more to bring them home alive to Israel. For the past week, families have held tent protests outside the prime minister's home.  

 

On Monday, several relatives broke into the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, reports the Israeli channel Kann News.

 

"Get up from your chairs"  

 

A clip from the channel's X account shows how they entered the financial committee meeting. There they call on the members to stand up and act for the release of the hostages.  

 

"You should not sit here while they are there, get up from your chairs," they said, among other things.  

 

After the storming of the meeting, Benjamin Netanyahu met the relatives in his office, according to Israeli media.  

 

The relatives have held repeated protests since the outbreak of war. Last week, several of them camped outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's home, criticizing his government for doing too little to bring the hostages home safely.  

 

On Monday, relatives of kidnapped Israelis stormed a meeting in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. Photo: Screenshot From "x"  

 

And now Netanyahu is also being pressured by the opposition. Gadi Eisenkot, minister in the war cabinet and former commander-in-chief of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), believes that the government must negotiate a new ceasefire so that more hostages can be released.  

 

He is supported by General Noam Tibbon, who says that an agreement with Hamas must be reached now.  

 

- Otherwise they will all come back in coffins or not at all, he says on Israeli radio, reports Al Jazeera.  

 

Relatives of the hostages also demand that the elections be brought forward to decide on Netanyahu's future.  

 

And soon the Knesset can vote on the Prime Minister's vote of confidence. Parliament will meet shortly to discuss a vote of no confidence in him following a motion by the Labor Party.  

 

Demonstrator with a Netanyahu-critical sign outside the Knesset last week. Photo: Abir Sultan / EPA  

 

According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States, Egypt and Qatar have drawn up a plan for an end to the war and new negotiations between Hamas and Israel are to take place in Cairo this week.

 

According to the WSJ, it will begin with the hostages being released, Israel withdrawing its forces from Gaza and ending the war. Something that will not be accepted by Israel, according to Benjamin Netanyahu.  

 

- Hamas demands, in exchange for the release of our hostages, that the war ends and that our forces be withdrawn from Gaza, Netanyahu said in a recorded statement according to TT. 

 

- Only a complete victory will ensure the elimination of Hamas and the return of all our hostages. 

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg / AP

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