The Hostage Families Forum and opposition leader Yair Lapid want to put pressure on Netanyahu’s government to reach an agreement with Hamas.
The opposition leader and families of hostages called for a general strike in Israel on Monday to force the government to reach an agreement to release the hundred or so captives still held in Gaza. The army’s announcement on Sunday that six more bodies had been found dead in a tunnel in the Palestinian territory has caused shock and anger in the country.
None of them had been reported dead so far. On October 7, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas launched a deadly attack in Israel that resulted in the deaths of a total of 1,205 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data.
His commandos had kidnapped 251 people. Among them, 97 are still being held in Gaza, including 33 declared dead by the army. The Hostage Families Forum called on Israelis to demonstrate Sunday evening in Tel Aviv to demand “a total blockade of the country and the implementation of an agreement to release the hostages”. “The hostages have been neglected for eleven months”hammers the collective, which challenges the Histadrut, the powerful trade union center.
«Cabinet of Death»
Opposition leader Yair Lapid also called on the Histadrut, “Municipalities and employers on general strike” on his Facebook page. “They were alive”and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Netanyahu and his death cabinet have decided not to save them. There are still hostages alive, we can still make a deal.”added Yair Lapid.
He was referring to a cabinet vote Thursday endorsing an Israeli condition for a ceasefire deal that Hamas and Egypt reject outright. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called Sunday “an immediate cabinet meeting to reverse this decision.”
“It is too late for the hostages who were killed in cold blood, we must bring back the hostages still in the hands of Hamas,” he continued. The Lev cinema chain announced on Sunday that it was closing its theatres in “support” to the families of the hostages. Several restaurant chains also announced they would close their doors Sunday evening. Israeli reprisals in Gaza have left at least 40,738 dead, according to the Hamas government’s Health Ministry, the majority of whom are women and minors, according to the UN.
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