In addition to the hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestine supporters gathered in Rome to denounce the Italian government’s “complicity” in the conflict, thousands of Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv have once more demanded the release of prisoners held in Gaza and an immediate ceasefire.
Several hours after the Thai government’s ministry of foreign affairs reported that Israeli forces had recovered the body of a Thai captive, captive families and antigovernment protesters gathered in front of Israel’s army headquarters on Saturday.
Nattapong Pinta was taken captive by Hamas during its October 7, 2023 attack, according to a statement released by the Israeli army on Saturday morning.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum “bows its head in sorrow over the murder of Nattapong Pinta,” according to a statement from The Hostages and Missing Families Forum on X.
“All 55 hostages have run out of time,” the statement read. Now, the group wrote on X, “We must bring them all home, Now.”
An Israeli captive, Matan Zangauker, is being held in an area that the Israeli army has targeted, according to Abu Obeida, the spokesperson of Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.
The Israeli military would be held accountable if Zangauker were killed while attempting to free him, he warned.
At the Tel Aviv protest, the captive’s mother, Einav Zangauker, criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for ignoring the Palestinians in Gaza.
“My son is in immediate danger because of the military pressure that is putting him in danger.” She said Matan’s life and the lives of all the hostages are at stake because of the decision to expand the ground operation.
“Netanyahu] continues to give the hostages. He is using the Israeli military to continue the conflict and defend his government, not to defend Israel’s security.
According to reports in Israeli media, police prevented Looking the Occupation in the Eye activists from entering the protest area in Tel Aviv. The activists reportedly carried placards in Gaza to protest Israeli war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
אלימות מצד המשטרה, דחיפות וצעקות לעבר מפגינים הנושאים שלטים הקוראים להפסקת המלחמה.
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Translated: Police yell and shove at protesters who carry signs pleading for the end of the war.
Following a number of prisoner-for-captive exchanges with the Israeli government, the Hamas attack, which killed 1, 139 people in southern Israel, abducted 251. At the moment, 55 prisoners are being held captive in Gaza, a number of whom are dead.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israel’s war on Gaza has resulted in the deaths of at least 54 people, 772 of whom were Palestinians, and 834 others.
Enough about the Palestinians’ massacre, they say.
Meanwhile, pro-Palestine demonstrators across Europe demanded that the Israeli-led genocidal assault in Gaza be stopped.
In a protest against the government’s “complicity” in the war, hundreds of thousands of people marched through Rome.
Elly Schlein, the leader of the main opposition party, described the turnout as “an enormous popular response” in opposition to Israel’s occupation of the besieged and bombarded enclave.
According to Schlein, the purpose of the demonstration was to “say enough about the massacre of Palestinians, to say enough about the crimes committed by Netanyahu’s far-right government,” and to show “another Italy” to the media.
Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister, has been under increasing pressure to take a stronger stance on the Gaza war despite having repeatedly supported Israel and Prime Minister, as well as recently having difficult conversations with the Israeli leader.
Anti-government demonstrators chanted “Cut war, not welfare” in the British capital, London.
A world of “peace” was needed, according to former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at the Whitehall rally in light of the “abominable, deliberate starvation of children in Gaza and the genocide that has been committed against the Palestinian people.”
He said, “We need a world of peace that can be achieved through the vision of peace, the vision of disarmament, and the vision of actually addressing the causes of war, which causes the refugee flows and the desperation of today.”
Source: Aljazeera
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