On Saturday meets US messenger Steve Witcoff’s families Israeli hostages are still kept in Gaza Fear for the existence of prisoners in Tel Aviv increased by nearly 22 months in war.
The families of the hostages were protesting in Tel Aviv, urging the Israeli government to make a difficult push for the release of their loved ones. Vitcoff, who was welcomed with some applause and arguments for assistance, attended a closed meeting.
The video shared online shows that the chanting of families as a Vicchoff arrival “Bring them home!” And we need your help.”
Missing family forum hostages confirmed the meeting, which one came Week ceasefire talks left after VitchoffPromise to blame Hamas’s interaction and find other methods to free the hostages and to secure Gaza.
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After the meeting, the forum issued a statement saying that Witcoff had given him a personal commitment that he and President Trump would work to return the remaining hostages.
Witchoff said according to the stage,
On October 7, 2023, out of 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas -led militants, about 20 are considered alive in Gaza. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second largest terrorist group in Gaza, released different videos of different hostages this week, triggering resentment between hostage families and Israeli society.
Israeli media has not broadcast the video, he is called promotion, but 21 -year -old Rome Braslavsky’s family allowed a picture to release a picture, showing him clearly decaying at an unknown location. After watching the video, his mother, Tammy Braslavsky convicted the top Israeli officials and demanded that they meet him.
“They broke my child, I want him home now,” Braslavsky told Yate on Thursday. “Look at him: thin, lame, crying. All his bones are out.”
The protesters asked the Israeli government to make a deal to end the war, “to stop this nightmare and bring them out of the tunnels.”
“Do the right thing and just do it now,” said Lyor Korev, the chief strategy officer of the platform of hostages and missing families.
Vicchoff met with families a day later and after the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Hukabi Personally run US and Israeli -backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s visit to one of the distribution sites Southern Gaza city in Rafa.
Steve Witchoff
“We got briefing from (IDF) and talked to people on the ground. GHF gives more than one million meals a day, an incredible achievement!” Hukabi said in a social media post.
Four distribution sites of GHFThose who are in the regions controlled by the Israeli army have become a flashpoint of frustration, with a large crowd of people gathered outside, but who are then on fire from the Israeli forces or trampled into the resulting crush.
On Saturday, Gaza’s hospitals reported to kill more than a dozen people, eight of them, from the Israeli fire.
Near a GHF distribution site, Yahia Yusuf, who came to seek assistance on Saturday morning, described a nervous scene that is now seriously familiar. After helping to carry three people injured with gunshots, he told the Associated Press that he looked around and saw others bleeding on the ground.
“This is the same daily episode,” said Yusuf.
In response to questions about several eyewitness accounts of violence in the northern of the four facilities of the Israeli -backed American contractor, GHF said “nothing (on or near our sites).”
“We were not close to his (soldiers) and there was no danger,” said a person Abed Salaha, who was one of the crowds close to the GHF site near the Netzarim Corridor. “I miraculously survived death.”
According to a United Nations report published on Thursday, from 27 May to 31 July, 859 people were killed near GHF sites. Hundreds of more killed along the routes of the food convoy.
GHF states that its armed contractors have used only black pepper spray or removed warning shots to prevent deadly congestion. IsraelThe army has said that it has only launched warning shots on those who reach their forces, although it was said on Friday that it was working to make routes under its control. Israel and GHF have stated that the toll has been exaggerated.
Israel’s army did not answer questions about the deaths near assistance places immediately. Its top normal, meanwhile, warned on Saturday that if the hostages are not freed, “fighter would continue without comfort”. Lieutenant General El Zameer said that the Israeli army “would be suited to give Hamas a place under rising pressure.”
The war in Gaza began when Hamas attacked Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, mostly citizens. Israel’s anti -an aggressive More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killedAccording to Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry, who does not distinguish between militants and citizens and works under the Hamas government. The United Nations and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on casualties.
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