Tel Aviv: Apocalyptic testimonies of relatives of hostages in ERTNews – Carnage in the West Bank and Rafah

With her hostage relatives Hamas in the Tel Aviv participating in the massive demonstrations against Netanyahu’s governmentspoke ERTNews correspondent Kostis Konstantinou. They themselves feel that the world has abandoned them.

In the seventh month of their agony, many relatives have been closed but others are gathering at Homers Square.

With the help countless volunteers trying to be heard by the outside world.

Lee’s brother Keith is still a hostage in Gaza and was last heard from on November 26 when his bride was released in a hostage exchange.

“While we are striking and they are striking and Iran and Hezbollah are involved in the conflict, the hostages remain in the tunnels and do not return,” Lee said.

Or his brother Michael was kidnapped at the Nova festival where his wife was found murdered. Their two-and-a-half-year-old son was saved and has been looking for his parents ever since. We feel abandoned by the outside world, he explains.

“The issue is not Israel versus the Palestinians, it’s not a political issue, it’s people, it’s people like you and me and this can happen again and again, in Greece, in London, in New York. If people don’t oppose it, it will happen,” notes Michael.

Crowds rally in support of relatives as thousands call for Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation with protests not only not losing steam but instead seeing crowds grow. The government doesn’t seem willing to budge.

Bloodbath in the West Bank as well

In the meantime, a river of blood flows to Middle Eastwhere 18 Palestinians, including many children, were killed in Israeli raids on Rafa.

The tension rises steeply and at West bankwhere another 14 Palestinians were killed in Israeli army operations in the last 24 hours.

The Israeli army stated that his soldiers shot two Palestinians who tried to shoot and stab them in the occupied West Bank today and the Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that both men are dead.

“One of the terrorists attempted to stab IDF soldiers (of the Israel Defense Forces) who were in the area, who responded with live fire and neutralized him“, the Israeli military said. “The same time, the other terrorist opened fire on the soldierswho responded with live fire and neutralized him as well». A Reuters cameraman saw a body at the scene — an intersection near the Palestinian city of Hebron.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources, said Israeli forces shot the two men dead. near the West Bank city of Hebron and how ambulance crews were prevented from trying to reach them. Palestinian security sources told WAFA that the two men, aged 18 and 19, died and how they still can’t get the bodies of the two men.

Violence in the West Bank was already escalating before the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. It further escalated with frequent army raids on militant organizations, attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages and attacks by Palestinians on the street. yesterday, saturday, Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the West Bank, while an ambulance driver was killed on his way to pick up a wounded man in a separate violent attack by Jewish settlers, Palestinian authorities said.

Israeli forces started extensive raid in the early hours of Friday morning in Nur Shams area, near the town of Tulkarem and exchanged fire with armed militants until yesterday. Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested and hundreds killed in regular Israeli military and police operations in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, mostly members of armed groups, but also stone-throwing youths and unarmed civilians. involvement in incidents.

• Dispatch Tel Aviv – ERTNews: Kostis Constantinou | Cameraman: Fotis Pantos | Sound engineer: Yiannis Papachristos
• Video editor: Rena Dimitriou