Tel Aviv, Israel -Israelis marked on Saturdays A year since IDF, soldiers have found the bodies of six hostages who were executed by Hamas terrorists in a tunnel in the Gazastrook.
Organizers estimate that nearly 100,000 Israelis gathered in the hostages of Tel Aviv to remember them, while family members called on the government to close a deal to bring their loved ones home. A gigantic flag was unveiled to call President Trump to ‘write history’.
The executions collapsed Israel. The hostages were Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov and American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg polin.
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“He will always be 23. He was not perfect, although most of our parents want to believe that about our children. But he was indeed the perfect son for us. We are blessed that we had in our lives. We just wished it had been longer. Peace, dear boy,” they added.
The anniversary coincides with the new operation of Israel in Gaza City, which led to a fierce debate about whether it could endanger the remaining hostages, given what happened with the “beautiful six”.
The forum of gygage and missage and missing families warned that a deal to secure the hostages will continue to get stuck as IDF operations progress and calls “a painful memory of last year’s lesson: military pressure kills hostages.”
“This nightmare has to end! For 694 days our loved ones have passed hell, and we as a nation have lost all the feeling of direction. Escalating military pressure leaves the living hostages to their fate and let the bodies of those who are already buried dead in the mess of Gaza,” added the statement.
On Friday, the IDF announced that it had recovered the bodies of two hostages by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza.
Jonathan Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the parents of the murdered US-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, live his funeral at Jerusalem on September 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool/AFP via Getty images)
Israeli estimates indicate that 48 prisoners remain in the strip, it is believed that there are 20 life.
The developments come as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that only an extensive cessation – the fires – one that takes care of the return of all hostages and ends the war on the terms of Israel – will be considered.
“Most families want all hostages to return at the same time,” said Tzvika Mor, father of hostage Eitan Mor and co-founder of the Tikva Forum, which argues for a complete deal for eliminating Hamas.
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Mor pointed out at the 1976 Rescue as an example and noted that although the outcome was uncertain at the time, Israelis generally believed that the country had a duty to fight for its citizens instead of capitulating terrorists. He argued that although military action entails risks, it would be much greater danger to dictate Hamas after 7 October.
(Amit Goldstein // The Hygages and Missing Families Forum)
On Monday, Donald Trump suggested that the conflict would be packed within a few weeks. Two days later he was chairman of a meeting in the White House to discuss an extensive post -war plan for Gaza.
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“If that deal is not possible,” he continued, “then Israel would have to accept the partial deal that has been agreed that will give us time to reach a full deal.”
Netanyahu said to visit senator Joni Ernst, R -iowa, on Monday that the decision to expand the military campaign was “unambiguous”.
