Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed that his country is not backing out of the war against Hamas.
He stated this while reacting to boos by the families of captives held by Hamas in Gaza during an address to parliament.
“Now! Now!” the families chanted from the gallery on Monday when Netanyahu promised to bring the captives home but added that he has been told by Israeli field commanders that “more time” was needed.
“We wouldn’t have succeeded up until now to release more than 100 hostages without military pressure,” Netanyahu said. “And we won’t succeed at releasing all the hostages without military pressure.”
“We won’t stop until victory,” Netanyahu said over the cries of the protesters in parliament.
According to Al Jazeera, more than 20,674 people have been killed and 54,536 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7. The revised death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at 1,139.
Also according to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa, Israeli bombing killed Palestinians overnight in Khan Younis, Bureij, Juhor ad-Dik and Nuseirat.
