lördag 31 augusti 2024

The Israel-Hamas war

The Israel-Hamas war|The negotiations
The families: Netanyahu sentences the hostages to death

Family members of hostages accuse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of sentencing their relatives to death, the Times of Israel reports.

Netanyahu's announcement that he wants to establish permanent control of the Philadelphia Corridor, which runs along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt, has generated major protests in Tel Aviv. It complicates the negotiations with Hamas, which demands a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in order to release the hostages.

- Netanyahu's actions are a crime against the people, against the state of Israel and against Zionism, says Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker.

Even the former intelligence chief of the Israel Defense Forces, Amos Yadlin, is critical.

- The hostage has been abandoned. Every Israeli should go out and demonstrate, he says.
 
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Netanyahu in big row with defense minister over Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant got into a big fight during a Security Cabinet meeting on Thursday, CNN reports.

The row was over Israeli troop presence in Gaza, specifically the so-called Philadelphia Corridor along the border with Egypt, in the first phase of a ceasefire.

Gallant accused Netanyahu of "imposing" on the negotiators different maps of the troop positions than those presented by the negotiators in Cairo. They will not be accepted by Hamas, according to Gallant.

- I forced? said an angry Netanyahu.

- Of course it was you. You are running the negotiations all on your own, Gallant replied.

During the meeting, Netanyahu is said to have said he thinks it is more important to have soldiers in the Philadelphia corridor than to release the hostages, which shocked Gallant, according to the Times of Israel.

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