2024-04-23 00:44:34
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to increase “military pressure” on Hamas in the “coming days,” and member of the war cabinet, Benny Gantz, stressed the continued pressure on the movement to free the kidnapped people.
Netanyahu said in a speech on the occasion of Passover: “On this night, 133 of our dear brothers and sisters were not brought to the Passover table, and are still imprisoned in the hell of Hamas… Their suffering and the suffering of their families breaks our hearts and only increases our determination to return them. “We do not for a moment give up the sacred mission of returning them to their homeland.”
He added: “Unfortunately, Hamas rejected the proposals to release our abductees… Instead of retreating from its extremist positions, Hamas is building on the division within us, and is encouraged by the pressures directed against the Israeli government. Therefore, we will deal additional and painful blows to it, and this will happen soon.”
He continued: “In the coming days, we will increase military and political pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to free our hostages and achieve our victory.”
For his part, Gantz said: “We have not achieved all the war goals yet, but we have not given up on any of them,” stressing that his country will increase “political, military and economic pressure to return the kidnapped people.”
The former Defense Minister said: “We will not give up on our goals, foremost of which is the return of the kidnapped people, and we are committed to returning them.”
Gantz added, “The Lebanon front imposes the greatest challenge on us and requires urgent dealing with it,” noting that “the hour of decisiveness is approaching on the northern front on the border with Lebanon.”
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced, on Sunday, that the death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 34,097 people since the start of the war between Israel and the movement on October 7.
A statement from the ministry stated that within 24 hours until Sunday morning, 48 dead people arrived at hospitals, indicating that the total number of injured people rose to 76,980 wounded as a result of the war that broke out more than six months ago.
Last updated: April 22, 2024 – 00:13
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