We won’t let Netanyahu sacrifice captives: Families
Families of Zionist captives held in the Gaza Strip have denounced the Israeli regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for deliberately sabotaging Tel Aviv’s standing ceasefire deal with the Gaza-based resistance movement for political gains, vowing that they will not allow him to endanger the captives.
"The rest of our captives must be returned from Gaza in one batch, and we will not allow Netanyahu to sacrifice them," the families declared in a joint statement on Saturday.
They also urged Donald Trump, president of the United States, the regime’s biggest and most supportive ally, to intervene, while reiterating, "Netanyahu is ruining the deal for political reasons, and we will not allow him to do so."
Outrage over the handling of the issue has intensified among the regime’s illegal settlers, especially among the captives’ next of kin, with thousands of the settlers taking to the streets in protest on the same day.
According to the regime’s Channel 12, massive demonstrations erupted outside the regime’s ministry for military affairs in the city of Tel Aviv, where the demonstrators demanded a comprehensive exchange process with Hamas that ensures the release of all of the captives.
"Netanyahu tried to undermine the agreement this week and chose to bury the rest of our captives in [Hamas’] tunnels," the statement by the families added.
They were apparently referring to the Israeli premier’s asking Hamas to extend the initial phase of the ceasefire, a proposal that the resistance movement roundly rejected as "unacceptable."
Delivering the rejection, Hamas’ spokesman Hazem Qassem, meanwhile, condemned Tel Aviv for evading its commitment to a full withdrawal from Gaza and a permanent cessation of the regime’s aggression against the coastal sliver, while constantly trying to up the ante.
During the first phase of the ceasefire that wound down with Hamas’ releasing the bodies of four captives, the movement handed over 25 captives and the remains of eight others in exchange for the freedom of more than 2,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.
The regime has already killed many of the captives with its indiscriminate bombings of Gaza during its 15-month-plus war on the Palestinian territory that is hoped to end with the ceasefire deal.
Now, the remaining captives’ families fear that Netanyahu’s political maneuvering could derail further negotiations, leaving the captives in indefinite captivity, despite underway efforts by mediators to push for a resolution.
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