Protesters call for Israeli government to do more to secure release of loved ones, as south of Gaza sees worst violence since war began

Family members of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip have stormed a parliamentary meeting in Jerusalem to demand that Israel’s government does more to return their loved ones, as fighting in Khan Younis reached unprecedented levels.

About 20 relatives of people seized as captives by the Palestinian militant group in the 7 October attack disrupted a Knesset finance committee meeting on Monday, chanting: “Release them now, now, now!”

One woman, who has three family members taken by Hamas, cried: “Just one I’d like to get back alive, one out of three.” Other protesters held up signs reading: “You will not sit here while they die there.”

On Sunday, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected new Hamas conditions for ending the war and releasing the hostages including the Islamist group retaining control of Gaza and Israel withdrawing completely. In response, a Hamas official in Qatar said Netanyahu’s refusal to end the military offensive in Gaza meant there was “no chance for the return of the captives”.

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  • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Do you really understand, or do you just repeat what I’m saying to make it look like you “acknowledge and understand” but then proceed to ignore it anyway?

    If the national Palestinian response to a massacre is to come together and do another massacre, there is nothing to negotiate.

    ???

    I think this is it. I’m done with debating you. We had a good long debate on many threads, but I’m seriously done. Don’t take it personally, it’s just tiring. Seeing video footage of people dying at every single place they went to shelter in, and then seeing you day in day out pretend the numbers “aren’t so high” and trusting the IDF blindly… eh.

    I think the discussions were worth it, but today is the first time I cried in a while over this conflict, and I honestly do not think (based on our conversations) you would ever be able to show empathy on a true level.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      10 months ago

      Man I am a bleeding heart liberal who has a lot of sympathy for the innocent Palestinian people caught up in this.

      Where we disagree is that I think the greatest utility comes from liberating the region from Hamas and related ideologies of violence.

      You should cry more often. Very clarifying. There is a lot of emotion in your point of view and I think it clouds your assessment of things.

      Yeah, you’re right, I can look at lot of the “reports” of atrocities and find justification for Israel. If someone says that some apartment building was bombed indiscriminately and then I can go and find the actual recording residents of the same building received hours before the bombing and videos of the airburst shells they fired as warning shots before the ordinance, it’s not a lack of empathy that allows me to conclude that the bombing was justified, it’s that the alternative proposal, to let terrorist win simply because they use human shields.

      You seem perfectly content to let Hamas stay in charge and see another generation of Palestinians be martyred, coerced into doing a suicide bombing or ignoring evacuation orders and warning shots to die as human shields. I am not content with that. That’s my sympathy. You are concerned with the lives of tens of thousands of people. I am too. I am simply more concerned with the lives of tens of millions. They take up a bigger space in my brain and in my heart.