The families of Israeli hostages gathered outside of Benjamin Netanyahu’s office to protest against his plans to occupy Gaza. Footage shows demonstrators covered in chains and holding posters of their missing loved ones. One protester can be seen dressed as Netanyahu whilst holding a ripped Israeli flag and a baby doll. The mother of one hostage, Anat Angrest, said the government has abandoned her son by failing to “put a comprehensive deal on the table that will bring all 50 of them [the hostages] home together”. It came as the Israeli Security Cabinet held a lengthy debate on a plan to expand military control in Gaza, which was approved on Friday (8 Aug).
“We’re getting the hostages back! We’re getting the hostages back!” is the thing Ben-Gvir kept saying every time they flattened an apartment block where hostages were supposedly being kept. It’s what they said when they fired tank shells into a hospital, dragged the chief surgeon out, and then raped him to death in prison. Getting the hostages back was why they stormed Rafa and why they cut off all the food aid, then sent in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to fire armor piercing rounds through 4 year olds in line to receive a meager ration of potable water.
They’re clearly doing everything they can to get those hostages back. And its telling how this site’s anti-semitism is only working to embolden Hamas, forcing the IDF to continue to impose security and safety on the Palestinian people until the hostages are returned.