{"id":280558,"date":"2024-01-23T07:53:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T07:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=280558"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:54:32","slug":"relatives-of-israeli-hostages-storm-parliament-to-demand-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=280558","title":{"rendered":"Relatives of Israeli hostages storm parliament to demand action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samuel Osborne \u2013 Sky News Jan 22, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Dozens of family members of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have stormed into a meeting in the Israeli parliament to demand action be taken to release their relatives.<\/p>\n

They entered a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem and shouted “you won’t sit here while they are dying there!”.<\/p>\n

One woman held up pictures of three family members who were taken and said: “Just one I’d like to get back alive, one out of three!”<\/p>\n

Other protesters chanted: “Release them now, now, now!”<\/p>\n

Parliamentary ushers, who are often quick to eject hecklers or protesters, stood by during the storming of the Knesset committee.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night family members set up a protest tent in Jerusalem and vowed to stay there until the government reached a deal to bring the remaining hostages home.<\/p>\n

Around 250 hostages were seized by Hamas when it rampaged across the border on 7 October. Some 130 remain in Gaza after others were brought home in a truce in November. Israel says 27 have died in captivity.<\/p>\n

US, Qatari and Egyptian efforts to mediate another release seem far from reconciling Israel’s drive to destroy Hamas and the militant group’s demand Israel withdraws and frees all of the thousands of Palestinians, including senior militants, from its prisons.<\/p>\n

It comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected conditions presented by Hamas to end the war and release hostages, which would have included Israel’s complete withdrawal and leaving Hamas in power in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In response the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum demanded Mr Netanyahu “clearly state that we will not
\nabandon civilians, soldiers, and others kidnapped in the October debacle”.<\/p>\n

“If the prime minister decides to sacrifice the hostages, he should show leadership and honestly share his position with the Israeli public,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Netanyahu\u2019s government won\u2019t bow to the demands of families whose relatives are held hostage by Hamas. To do so will the present Israeli government will have to enter negotiations with Hamas, and that is something they will not do <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":280559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280560,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280558\/revisions\/280560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/280559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}