The mother of a hostage still held in Gaza, Einat Zangauker: “This is the result of military pressure. We collect them dead »
On Tuesday, hostage families obtained the signatures of 70 out of 120 deputies in support of the Jewish state’s ceasefire proposal. Officially, 43 hostages died. In reality, barely half of the 124 captives are believed to be alive.
In offices in Bnei Brak, a religious suburb of Tel Aviv, more than a hundred Israeli soldiers have been keeping macabre accounts for seven months. Under the authority of reserve general Nitzan Alon, in close cooperation with the special forces and the research division and elite units of military intelligence, they gather proof of life, but also clues which would make it possible to attest to the deaths among the 124 hostages still held by Palestinian Hamas, after their kidnapping on October 7, 2023.
This announcement increases the pressure on the Israeli government, which is torn apart over a new ceasefire proposal, supposed to allow the release of at least some of the hostages. Relatives of captives and their supporters demonstrated on Monday evening in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, blocking the highway which serves the white city from north to south. The mother of a hostage still held in Gaza, Einat Zangauker, drew a clear conclusion: “This is the result of military pressure. We collect them dead. »
