2023-10-28 14:48:30
While their army subjected the Gaza Strip to a shelling of unprecedented violence since the start of the war, it was a sleepless night for them: the Israeli families of Hamas hostages demanded “answers” from their government. “Families are not sleeping. They want answers. They deserve answers”demanded Saturday in Tel Aviv, Haim Rubinstein, 35, spokesperson for the Forum of Families of Hostages and the Missing.
Early in the evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received them. According to the latest assessment by the Israeli authorities, around 230 hostages are being held in the Gaza Strip. More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, according to Israeli authorities. In newspapers and on social networks, their faces and their stories are omnipresent, feeding the deep trauma of Israeli society. They are of all ages, infants, children, adults, elderly.
While the Israeli army shelled and engaged on the ground in the Gaza Strip overnight from Friday to Saturday, the families were left “in absolute ignorance of the fate of the hostages, who were also subjected to violent strikes”denounced the families in a press release published in the morning.
Carried out immediately following the Hamas attacks, the Israeli bombings, coupled with a blockade of the Palestinian territory, killed more than 7,700 people, half of them children, according to the toll announced on Saturday by the Hamas Ministry of Health. Hamas said Thursday that around fifty hostages were among the dead.an “estimate” made public by the Islamist movement before the night of Friday to Saturday and which AFP is not able to verify.
The Israeli army announced that it had notably targeted the network of underground tunnels from where Hamas carries out its operations. However, it is in this immense labyrinth that Hamas is holding at least some of the hostagesaccording to Israeli officials.
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