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		<title>The Hamas first frees Israeli hostages which might be to be published within the last exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hamas freed all six hostages on the last exchange on Saturday, even when the stress between the opponents filled the longer term of the delicate ceasefire Deal. The six included three Israeli men, who were confiscated by the Nova Music Festival, and one other kidnapped person when he visited his family in South Israel when [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Hamas freed all six hostages on the last exchange on Saturday, even when the stress between the opponents filled the longer term of the delicate ceasefire Deal.</p>
<p>The six included three Israeli men, who were confiscated by the Nova Music Festival, and one other kidnapped person when he visited his family in South Israel when militant stormed attacks on October 7, 2023, the Israel almost 16- triggered the monate campaign within the Gaza strip.</p>
<p>Two of the hostages have been held by Hamas for a couple of decade, since everyone entered the Gaza alone.</p>
<p>Five of the prisoners were handed over to staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel condemned prior to now &#8211; brought out a whole bunch of Palestinians by masked, armed Hamas fighters before they were transferred to Red Cross vehicles.</p>
<p>Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov and Eliya Cohen were posed on stage within the central city of Nuseeiaiat. A radiant Shem -Tov even kissed two militants next to him on his head and blew the gang on the gang. Hamas was severely criticized for such public representations, with Israel, the UN and the Red Cross say that they&#8217;re cruel and don&#8217;t respect the dignity of hostages.</p>
<p>Cohen&#39;s family and friends in Israel sang the publication and sang &#8220;Eliya! Eliya! Eliya!&#8221; And cheered after they saw him for the primary time. The grandmother of Shem Tov Ululated in joy and screamed: &#8220;Omer, my joy! My life!&#8221; as she saw him.</p>
<p>The Israeli military says that the last hostage of Hamas was released in a while Saturday. He was not identified immediately, but is anticipated that he shall be Hisham al-Sayed, 36, a Bedouin Israeli who crossed in Gaza alone in 2015 and has been held since then. His family has announced that Israeli media al-Sayed have previously diagnosed schizophrenia.</p>
<p>The recent publications, followed by the free time of a whole bunch of Palestinians who were locked up by Israel, two young boys were kidnapped by the militants.</p>
<p>The stays that Hamas were transferred with the body of their sons on Thursday were later decided because the Palestinian woman that was not identified. In response, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sworn revenge for &#8220;cruel and malicious injury&#8221;, while Hamas suggested that this was a mistake.</p>
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<p>On Friday evening, the small militant group Bibas and her sons &#8211; the Palestinian Mujaheden -Brigaden &#8211; held a second body. Bibas&#39; family said that the Israeli forensic authorities had confirmed that the stays belong.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have been looking for security for 16 months, and now that it is here, it does not bring comfort, although we hope that it marks the start of closure,&#8221; said the family.</p>
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<p>The ceasefire agreement has the war, but approaches the top of its first phase. Negotiations on a second phase during which Hamas would publish dozens of more hostages in exchange for everlasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal could be even tougher.</p>
<p>The six hostages which might be freed on Saturday are the last living people published in the primary phase.</p>
<p>Cohen, Shem Tov and Wenkert, all within the 20s, were kidnapped by Hamas Fighters on the Nova Music Festival. During their release, they were released with fake army uniforms, although they weren&#8217;t soldiers after they were kidnapped.</p>
<p>On Saturday, two more hostages &#8211; Tal Shoham (40) and Avera Mengistu (38 &#8211; were liberated within the southern city of Rafah in southern Gaza. When they arrived back in Israel, each were dropped at medical centers for examination.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is an unforgettable moment when all emotions quickly come together. Our valley is with us,&#8221; said Shoham&#39;s family in a explanation and demanded a deal to free everyone in prisoners. &#8220;There is a time window; we are not allowed to miss it.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Shoham, who also held Austrian citizenship, visited his family in Kibbutz Be&#39;eri when the militants of Hamas stormed into the community throughout the attacks on October 7, 2023. Shoham&#39;s wife, two babies and three other relatives who were kidnapped with him were freed in an exchange in November 2023.</p>
<p>Mengistu, an Ethiopian Israeli, has been in Gaza in 2014 as an alternative of the primary time in 2014. &#8220;Do you remember me?&#8221; One of his brothers asks after they hugged within the hospital.</p>
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<p>Later on Saturday, Israel is to publish 620 Palestinians.</p>
<p>This includes 151, which serve lives or other penalties, of which around 100 are deported to other countries, in line with the media office of the Palestinian prisoner. This also includes 445 men and 18 children between the ages of 15 and 17, five years between the ages of 18 and 19, and a lady who were confiscated by Israeli troops in Gaza throughout the current war throughout the current war.</p>
<p>Hamas has announced that it&#8217;s going to publish 4 more bodies next week and to finish the primary phase of the ceasefire. If this plan is executed, Hamas would keep around 60 hostages, about half of whom are alive.</p>
<p>Hamas said that it could not release the remaining prisoners without everlasting ceasefire and an entire Israeli retreat. Netanyahu with the complete support of the Trump administration said that he had undertaken to destroy the military and government ability of Hamas and to return all hostages, and the goals which might be widely considered mutually.</p>
<p>According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel&#39;s military offensive killed greater than 48,000 Palestinians, mainly women and kids, which didn&#8217;t differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel says that it killed greater than 17,000 fighters without providing any evidence.</p>
<p>The offensive destroyed wide areas within the Gaza and reduced entire districts to mess. In its climax, the war sold 90% of the population of Gaza. Many have returned to their houses in order not to search out anything and haven&#8217;t any option to rebuild.</p>
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		<title>Hamas hands three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross within the Central Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Palestinian militant group Hamas gave three Israeli hostages on Saturday, whose appearance of Israelis after its publication on live television on the last stage of a ceasefire cope with the top of the 15-month war war in Gaza. Ohad Ben Ami and Eli Sharabi, each of whom were taken hostage by Kibbutz Be&#39;eri through [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The Palestinian militant group Hamas gave three Israeli hostages on Saturday, whose appearance of Israelis after its publication on live television on the last stage of a ceasefire cope with the top of the 15-month war war in Gaza. </p>
<p>Ohad Ben Ami and Eli Sharabi, each of whom were taken hostage by Kibbutz Be&#39;eri through the cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, and or Levy, who were kidnapped by the Nova Music Festival that day.</p>
<p>The three men all appeared thin, weak and pale and in worse condition than the 18 hostages that had </p>
<p>&#8220;He looked like a skeleton, it was terrible to see,&#8221; said Ohad Ben Ami&#39;s mother-in-law, Michal Cohen, opposite Channel 13 News when she saw the Hamas-staged handover ceremony to which they contained to reply questions that from them from The masked man answered considered one of considered one of an issue asked as a militant who were armed with automatic rifles on all sides.</p>
<p>Dozens of armed Hamas fighters were used on the DEIR al-Balah location in the middle of Gaza when the lads were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which should transport them to Israeli forces in Gaza Strip.    </p>
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<p>In return, Israel will publish 183 Palestinian prisoners who&#8217;re convicted of participation in attacks by which dozens of individuals were killed and recorded in Hamas 18 years after the war.</p>
<p>For families of the Israeli hostages which were holding in Gaza Strip for greater than a yr, the waiting was a roller coaster ride of fear and hope when the moments of reunification were made nearby. </p>
<p>Some look a painful return. Sharabis two teenage daughters and his wife, born in Great Britain, were killed within the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be&#39;eri, where considered one of ten inhabitants was killed.</p>
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<p>The exchange is the newest in a series of swaps which have thus far returned 13 Israeli and five Thai hostages which were kidnapped through the Hamas attack and were released 583 Palestinian prisoners and prisoners.</p>
<p>Despite swallowups, a 42-day ceasefire and a hostage of prison for prison has put into force with the support and mediation of Egypt and mediation of US and Qatar since he got here into force almost three weeks ago.</p>
<p>But the fears that the deal could collapse before all hostages have been free for the reason that surprise palletires of US President Donald Trump from Gaza and the Enclave are handed over to the United States and developed within the &#8220;Riviera of the Middle East&#8221; to be developed around to grow to be the &#8220;Riviera of the Middle East&#8221;. . </p>
<p>The Arab states and Palestinian groups rejected the proposal to say the critics of being ethnic cleansing.</p>
<p>The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Trump&#39;s intervention and his defense minister ordered the military to make plans to enable Palestinians who wanted to depart Gaza.</p>
<p>As a part of the ceasefire contract, 33 Israeli children, women and sick, wounded and older men are to be released in an initial phase in an initial phase for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and prisoners.</p>
<p>Negotiations on a second phase began this week to return the remaining hostages and to rearrange an entire withdrawal of the Israeli troops from Gaza in an effort to prepare for a final end to the war.</p>
<p>The men armed by the Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killed around 1,200 people and, in line with Israeli days, confiscated greater than 250 as hostages.</p>
<p>In response to this, Israel began an air and soil war in Gaza Strip, which, in line with the Gaza health authorities, killed greater than 47,000 Palestinians and destroyed a big a part of the tight enclaves.  </p>
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		<title>Hamas frees hostages, Israel releases Palestinian prisoners on first day of ceasefire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners. It was the primary day of a ceasefire that suspended a 15-month war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East. The ceasefire allowed Palestinians to return to bombed-out neighborhoods to start rebuilding their lives, while aid trucks delivered [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>On Sunday, Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners. It was the primary day of a ceasefire that suspended a 15-month war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East.</p>
<p>The ceasefire allowed Palestinians to return to bombed-out neighborhoods to start rebuilding their lives, while aid trucks delivered much-needed aid. Elsewhere in Gaza, crowds cheered Hamas fighters as they emerged from hiding.</p>
<p>As buses carrying the Palestinian prisoners arrived in Ramallah within the West Bank, where hundreds of individuals were waiting to welcome them, fireworks were set off in celebration. Those released from Israeli prisons included 69 women and 21 teenagers from the West Bank and Jerusalem, based on Hamas.</p>
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<p>In Tel Aviv, a whole lot of Israelis cheered and cried in a square outside the defense headquarters as a live broadcast from Gaza showed three female hostages entering into a Red Cross vehicle surrounded by Hamas fighters.</p>
<p>The Israeli military said Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari had been reunited with their moms and released a video that appeared to indicate them in good health. Damari, who lost two fingers when she was shot the day she was abducted, smiled and hugged her mother while holding up a bandaged hand.</p>
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<p>“I want you to tell them: Romi, Doron and Emily – an entire nation embraces you. Welcome home,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a commander on the phone.</p>
<p>At Sheba Medical Center, the ladies were reunited with their families in long hugs that ranged from tears to laughter. A smiling Damari was draped in an Israeli flag. They were amongst greater than 250 people kidnapped and 1,200 killed in a Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel said.</p>
<p>More than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since then, based on medical officials in Gaza. Almost all of Gaza&#39;s 2.3 million population is homeless. Around 400 Israeli soldiers also died.</p>
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<p>The ceasefire calls for an end to the fighting, the sending of aid to Gaza and the discharge of 33 of the nearly 100 remaining Israeli and foreign hostages within the six-week first phase in return for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. Many of the hostages are presumed dead. In northern Gaza, Palestinians made their way through a devastated landscape of rubble and twisted metal that had been forgotten through the fiercest fighting of the war.</p>
<p>“I feel like I have finally found some water to drink after being lost in the desert for 15 months,” said Aya, who said she has been displaced from her home in Gaza City for greater than a yr been.</p>
<p>The first phase of the ceasefire got here into force after a three-hour delay during which Israeli warplanes and artillery bombarded the Gaza Strip.</p>
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<p>According to Palestinian health authorities, 13 people were killed on this last-minute attack. Israel accused Hamas of delaying in releasing the names of the hostages it sought to free and said it had attacked terrorists. Hamas said the delay in providing the list was technical. “Today the guns in Gaza have fallen silent,” US President Joe Biden said on his last full day in office, hailing a ceasefire that had eluded US diplomacy for greater than a yr. “We have reached this point today because Israel, with the support of the United States, has been building pressure on Hamas.”</p>
<p>For Hamas, the ceasefire was a possibility to emerge from the shadows after 15 months of obscurity. Hamas law enforcement officials in blue police uniforms deployed quickly in some areas, and armed fighters drove through the southern town of Khan Younis, where a crowd cheered &#8220;Greetings to the Al-Qassam Brigades,&#8221; the group&#39;s armed wing.</p>
<p>“All resistance groups remain despite Netanyahu,” one fighter told Reuters.</p>
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<p>There isn&#8217;t any detailed plan for governing Gaza after the war, let alone rebuilding it. Any return of Hamas will test the patience of Israel, which has said it can resume fighting unless the militant group is totally dismantled.</p>
<p>Hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir resigned from the Cabinet over the ceasefire, although his party said it might not attempt to topple Netanyahu&#39;s government. The other most distinguished hardliner, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, remained in government but said he would quit if the war ended without the whole destruction of Hamas.</p>
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<p>The ceasefire got here into effect on the eve of US President-elect Donald Trump&#39;s inauguration on Monday. Trump&#39;s designated national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said that if Hamas broke the deal, the United States would support Israel in &#8220;doing what it needs to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Hamas will never rule Gaza. This is completely unacceptable,” he said.</p>
<p>The streets of devastated Gaza City were already teeming with groups of individuals waving the Palestinian flag and filming the scenes with their cellphones. Several carts loaded with home goods moved down a thoroughfare suffering from rubble and debris.</p>
<p>Ahmed Abu Ayham, 40, from Gaza City said that while the ceasefire had saved lives, the casualties and destruction were no cause for celebration.</p>
<p>“We are in pain, deep pain and it is time to hug each other and cry,” he said.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President-elect Donald Trump warned Tuesday that &#8220;all hell will break loose in the Middle East&#8221; if Hamas doesn&#8217;t release its hostages held in Gaza by his inauguration on January 20. “And it won’t be good for Hamas and it won’t be good for anyone, frankly,” Trump said at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>President-elect Donald Trump warned Tuesday that &#8220;all hell will break loose in the Middle East&#8221; if Hamas doesn&#8217;t release its hostages held in Gaza by his inauguration on January 20.</p>
<p>“And it won’t be good for Hamas and it won’t be good for anyone, frankly,” Trump said at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.</p>
<p>“We want to get these hostages back for Israel and for us,” Trump said.</p>
<p>“You know, we have people being held hostage,” he said. “And I’ll say it again: If this deal isn’t made with the people who represent our nation by the time I take office, all hell will break loose.”</p>
<p>Trump gave no indication of what motion he would take if the hostages weren&#8217;t released.</p>
<p>Nearly 100 hostages are believed to still be held captive in Gaza, although a few of these persons are believed to be dead.</p>
<p>Hamas on Monday released a listing containing the names of 34 hostages that the group said it was willing to release in the primary phase of a possible ceasefire take care of Israel.</p>
<p>Trump reiterated his warning as Steve Witkoff, his designated Middle East envoy, told reporters that there had been &#8220;great progress&#8221; in negotiations in Doha, Qatar, to secure the discharge of hostages held in the course of the deadly attack of the terrorist group on October 7, 2023, incursion into Israel.</p>
<p>“I think we were close,” Witkoff said after Trump spotted him behind the room and called him to the rostrum to talk.</p>
<p>Witkoff said he expected to fly back to Doha on Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning.</p>
<p>It was unclear what role Witkoff played within the talks because Trump doesn&#39;t take office for one more two weeks and Witkoff is just not officially a U.S. government representative.</p>
<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Hamas said it stood by its demand that Israel completely halt military operations against Gaza as a part of an agreement to release the hostages.</p>
<p>Israel, for its part, says the war will proceed until the hostages are released and Hamas is crushed<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-stands-by-demand-end-gaza-war-under-hostage-deal-trump-deadline-approaches-2025-01-07/" target="_blank"> Reuters</a> Intelligence service.</p>
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<p>“I don’t want to say too much” in regards to the status of the talks in Doha, Witkoff said.</p>
<p>But he added: &#8220;I&#39;m really confident that we can announce some really good things on behalf of the president at the inauguration.&#8221;</p>
<p>He credited Trump&#39;s &#8220;reputation, the things he&#39;s said&#8221; for &#8220;driving the negotiations forward.&#8221;</p>
<p>“I think they heard it loud and clear and need to be ready by the inauguration,” Witkoff said.</p>
<p>“Hopefully everything works out and we save some lives,” he added.</p>
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		<title>After the death of six hostages, Israelis demand a ceasefire in protests</title>
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<p>TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of hundreds of grieving and offended Israelis poured into the streets Sunday night after six more hostages were found dead in Gaza, chanting &#8220;Now! Now!&#8221; and demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas to bring the remaining prisoners home.</p>
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<p>The mass demonstration was apparently the biggest of its kind in 11 months of war. Protesters said it felt like a possible turning point, despite the fact that the country is deeply divided.</p>
<p>Israel&#39;s largest union, the Histadrut, put further pressure on the federal government by calling a general strike for Monday, the primary because the October 7 Hamas attack that sparked the war. The strike goals to shut or disrupt key sectors of the economy, including banking, health care and the country&#39;s primary airport.</p>
<p>Negotiations for a ceasefire have dragged on for months, with many blaming Netanyahu for the failure to succeed in an agreement, despite opinion polls showing a majority of Israelis in favor. But the prime minister also has significant support for his strategy of &#8220;total victory&#8221; against Hamas, even when an agreement on the hostages must wait.</p>
<p>Thousands of individuals gathered outside Netanyahu&#39;s office in Jerusalem on Sunday evening, a few of them crying. In Tel Aviv, relatives of the hostages marched with coffins to symbolize the victims.</p>
<p>&#8220;We really believe that the government is making these decisions to protect itself and not to protect the lives of the hostages, and we have to tell them, &#39;Stop!&#39;&#8221; said Shlomit Hacohen, a Tel Aviv resident.</p>
<p>Three of the six hostages found dead &#8211; including an Israeli-American citizen &#8211; were reportedly set to be released as a part of the primary phase of a ceasefire proposal discussed in July, adding to anger and frustration amongst protesters.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nothing is worse than knowing they could have been saved,&#8221; said Dana Loutaly. &#8220;Sometimes it takes something so terrible to wake people up and get them out on the streets.&#8221;</p>
<p>The military said all six hostages were killed shortly before Israeli forces arrived. &#8220;Those who murder hostages do not want a deal,&#8221; Netanyahu said, blaming the militant Hamas for the deadlock in negotiations.</p>
<p>One of the hostages was 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin from Berkeley, California, who lost a part of his left arm to a grenade within the attack. In April, a video released by Hamas showed him alive, sparking latest protests in Israel.</p>
<p>The army identified the others as Ori Danino, 25; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Almog Sarusi, 27; Alexander Lobanov, 33; and Carmel Gat, 40.</p>
<p>Israel&#39;s Health Ministry said autopsies showed the hostages were shot at close range and died on Thursday or Friday. The army said the bodies were recovered from a tunnel within the southern Gaza town of Rafah, about 800 meters from where one other hostage was rescued alive last week.</p>
<p>Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, a military spokesman, said Israeli forces found the bodies several dozen meters underground while &#8220;continuous fighting&#8221; was underway, but there was no shooting within the tunnel itself. He said there was little question Hamas had killed them.</p>
<p>Hamas has offered the discharge of the hostages in exchange for an end to the war, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the discharge of numerous Palestinian prisoners, including high-ranking militants.</p>
<p>Izzat al-Rishq, a senior Hamas official, said the hostages would still be alive if Israel had accepted a US-backed ceasefire proposal that Hamas said it agreed to in July.</p>
<p>The funerals began with even greater outrage. Sarusi&#39;s body was draped in an Israeli flag. &#8220;You were abandoned again and again, day after day, hour after hour, 331 days,&#8221; said his mother Nira. &#8220;You and so many beautiful and pure souls.&#8221;</p>
<h4>Divisions in Israel and the federal government</h4>
<p>Netanyahu has vowed to proceed the fighting until Hamas is destroyed.</p>
<p>Senior security officials say the large pressure on Hamas has created favorable conditions for a ceasefire. The army, which knows the difficulties of rescue operations, has acknowledged that a deal is the one method to bring large numbers of hostages home safely.</p>
<p>But critics accused the prime minister of putting his personal interests above those of the hostages. The end of the war will likely result in an investigation into his government&#39;s failings within the October 7 attacks, the collapse of the federal government and the early elections.</p>
<p>Some analysts said the general public outcry over the deaths of the six hostages may very well be an indication of a brand new level of political pressure on Netanyahu.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think this is an earthquake. This is not just another step in the war,&#8221; said Nomi Bar-Yaacov, associate fellow within the International Security Program at Chatham House, shortly before the protests on Sunday.</p>
<p>Disagreements have also emerged inside the federal government, with senior military and security officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, warning that point is running out.</p>
<p>Israeli television station Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu and Gallant clashed at a security cabinet meeting on Thursday, with Gallant accusing him of putting control of a strategic corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border &#8211; a significant sticking point within the talks &#8211; above the lives of the hostages.</p>
<p>An Israeli official confirmed the report and said three of the hostages &#8211; Goldberg-Polin, Yerushalmi and Gat &#8211; were to have been released in the primary phase of a ceasefire proposal discussed in July. The official was not authorized to transient the media on the negotiations and spoke on condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>&#8220;On behalf of the State of Israel, I carry their families in my heart and ask for forgiveness,&#8221; Gallant said on Sunday. The cabinet met on Sunday evening.</p>
<p>A forum of hostage families called for a &#8220;complete shutdown of the country&#8221; to force a ceasefire and the discharge of the hostages.</p>
<p>Even a mass outburst of anger wouldn&#8217;t pose a right away threat to Netanyahu or his far-right government. He still has a majority in parliament, but he has caved to public pressure before. A general strike last yr helped delay his controversial judicial reforms.</p>
<h4>The spectacular campaign of a family</h4>
<p>Goldberg-Polin&#39;s parents, U.S.-born immigrants to Israel, became perhaps the hostages&#39; most high-profile relatives on the international stage, meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Pope Francis and speaking on the Democratic National Convention on August 21 to sustained applause and shouts of &#8220;Bring him home.&#8221;</p>
<p>Biden said on Sunday that he was &#8220;devastated and outraged.&#8221; The White House said he had spoken to Goldberg-Polin&#39;s parents and expressed their condolences.</p>
<p>On October 7, around 250 hostages were taken. Israel believes that 101 hostages remain in captivity, of whom 35 are presumed dead. More than 100 were released during a ceasefire in November in exchange for the discharge of Palestinians held captive in Israel. Eight were rescued by Israeli forces. Israeli troops mistakenly killed three Israelis who escaped from captivity in December.</p>
<p>When militants led by Hamas invaded southern Israel on October 7, they killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians. According to local health authorities, greater than 40,000 Palestinians were killed within the Israeli retaliatory offensive within the Gaza Strip. They didn&#8217;t provide any information on the variety of fighters.</p>
<p>On Sunday, an Israeli strike hit a automobile on a road within the southern Gaza Strip, killing 4 Palestinians, based on officials at Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and an AP journalist who counted the bodies.</p>
<p>The war has forced the overwhelming majority of Gaza&#39;s 2.3 million inhabitants to flee, often multiple times, and plunged the besieged territory right into a humanitarian catastrophe.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Samy Magdy in Cairo, Danica Kirka in London and Darlene Superville in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, contributed to this report.</p>
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<p>Originally published: <time datetime="2024-09-01 13:36:34">September 1, 2024 at 1:36 p.m.</time></p>
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