“We are also making efforts to locate the hostages and bring them back. We are not giving up,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday, November 19.
An exceptional bonus
Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would offer a large reward to anyone who helps release and hostage detained in the Gaza Strip, reports BFMTV. “TAnyone who brings a hostage to us will find with us a safe way for them and their families to leave Gaza.“, he announced, according to a press release published by his office.
This statement was made in a video filmed inside the Gaza Strip. Wearing a military helmet and bulletproof vest, the prime minister spoke in the Netzarim corridor, an area controlled by the Israeli army, with the sea in the background. “We will also give a reward of five million dollars for each hostage“, he clarified.
More than 95 hostages in Gaza
Benjamin Netanyahu warned that anyone who harms hostages is considered dead. “We will chase you and we will catch you“, he warned. According to him, efforts to locate the detainees and bring them back are continuing. “We are not giving up on it. We'll keep doing this until we've found them all, alive or dead“, he added. He also confirmed that one of the objectives of the war is that the “Hamas does not govern in Gaza“.
To date, 97 people are still detained in hostage in Gaza, 34 of whom were declared dead by the army.
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