OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Israeli Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a body representing the families of Israeli captives held in the Gaza Strip, announced on Sunday evening the launch of an open sit-in protest in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Jerusalem.
The Forum said the sit-in comes to demand that the government reach a deal leading to the release of their detained relatives in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip which has been subjected to devastating Israeli aggression for 107 days.”
Israeli media reported that a confrontation broke out between Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and members of four families of the Israeli captives in front of the Ministry of Security building in Tel Aviv.
Smotrich has been making extremist statements, the last of which was made just a few days ago when he spoke with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir about the necessity of displacing the residents of Gaza, reoccupying the Strip, and building settlements in the Strip.
On Sunday evening, demonstrators blocked traffic in front of the entrance to the headquarters of the Ministry of the Army in Tel Aviv.
Earlier on Sunday, Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, published a message addressed to the families of Israeli captives.
The letter, which is written in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, reads, “To the prisoners’ families, the choice is yours, in coffins, or alive? Your government is lying, time is running out.”
The Israeli ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far led to the martyrdom of 25,105 Palestinians and the injury of 62,681 others, in addition to the displacement of more than 85 percent (about 1.9 million people) of the Strip’s population, according to Gaza authorities and international bodies and organizations.
