Israel and Hamas extended the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip for another day. It was an agreement reached at the last minute, to allow the release of more hostages.
This Thursday, Hamas released three more women, including 21-year-old French-Israeli Mia Shem, and more hostages are expected to be handed over soon. However, Hamas begins to place a high price on the delivery of new hostages and calls for the release of all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.
Israel promises to continue fighting to eliminate Hamas as soon as the truce ends.
In Tel Aviv, residents of the Kfar Aza kibbutz gathered at the Israeli Ministry of Defense to demand the release of all hostages.
Simona Steinbrecher is the mother of Doron, held hostage by Hamas in Gaza: “Each hostage is the son of a mother. I don’t want any mother to get a phone call from her daughter where she says she’s scared and terrorists are heard screaming and shooting,” she says.
Each hostage is a mother’s son.
Simona Steinbrecher
Hostage mother
Makabit Mayer, aunt of twins Gali and Ziv, adds: “They are twins, so I hope they are kept together. I hope they are alive and survive so they can return home.”
During the concentration, the hostages’ families prepared some of the favorite dishes of the men, women and children who continue to be held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since the bloody 7th of October.