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The more Hamas continues in its refusal to release our hostages, the more powerful the repression we exert will be,
Netanyahu told a hearing in parliament, which was occasionally interrupted by shouting from opposition members Every time the occupation attempts to retrieve its captives by force, it ends up bringing them back in coffins,
the group said in a statement In just one week, 142,000 people have been displaced,
the spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, said, I don’t know who organised the protest,
one man told Agence France-Press This includes the seizure of territories, along with other measures I will not elaborate here, ... The more Hamas refuses to free the hostages, the more territory it will lose, which will be annexed by Israel
he added, days after his Defence Minister Israel Katz had warned We are fighting here against a terrorist organisation that only understands force,
This moment felt closer than ever and unfortunately, it's drifting away from me again,
he said of his brother Guy Gilboa-Dalal, taken from a music festival near the Gaza border and last seen in a video shared by Hamas last month On the other hand, I am terrified that these bombings and this operation... will endanger the hostages there. There's no way to know what the terrorists might do to them or if a missile might accidentally hit them,
There is a feeling that the burden is on the same small number of people,
said Hagar Chen-Tzion, whose husband, a deputy company commander in the Armored Tanks Corps, was preparing to deploy for a fourth stint to Gaza this week The army was not built to maintain this reserve force, so they never expected to put us in this situation,
said Ari Krauss, a reservist from Golani, an elite IDF infantry brigade Now that people have been home, and had more time to think,
If the government doesn’t share my values, or the values of most of the country, I wondered if my being there wasn’t helping the bad guys by being a useful idiot,
he said of Israel’s government, citing months of public pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war and negotiate a hostage deal with Hamas With our families, there’s respect and appreciation or whatever,
Statistically, it feels like it will get us at some point, too,
I want to know that if my husband is called it is because it is really necessary, and because we will really win,
This includes seizing territory and it includes other things,
My position is that first we have to get the hostages back, even if we need to commit to end the war and pull back to a security perimeter,
said Ram Ben Barak, former deputy head of Mossad and current Knesset member Let them out. If they have visas and want to go, Israel should let them. It will make military operations easier in a less densely populated area."
We’re not just degrading military capabilities anymore,
The only real limitation is the hostages,