The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised yesterday Monday (26.05.2025) how he would bring back ‘All’ hostages‘The living and the dead’, left in the hands of Hamas – or other Palestinian armed movements – in Gauze stripwhile his army continues to bomb the Palestinian enclave in intensively, where first aid services counted 52 dead.
On May 17, the Israeli Armed Forces escalated their attack on the Gaza Strip, with publicly proclaimed goals to release the remaining hostages, to take control of the whole Palestinian pocket, and to destroy it, Tomorrow -we will not leave, “said Prime Minister Netanyahu.
“We have the intention of bringing them back all, the living and the dead”, He added in his speech that closed the celebrations of “Jerusalem Day”.
“Our mission”, the victory in the war, “including the hostage, is in our minds day and night” and “we don’t give up”, he insisted.
Statements by the leader of the Israeli government are recorded as international pressure on the end of the large scale of military operations in the Palestinian pocket under a siege, where the disasters are enormous and the population faces the risk of starving.
The armed conflict had an unprecedented raid of Hamas’ military arm against the southern sectors of Israeli territory with the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
Of the 251 people who had been abducted that day, 57 are left in the Gaza Strip, but at least 34 of them are dead, according to Israeli authorities.
Earlier yesterday, Netanyahu said, in a video he published via Telegram that he fed the “hope” to make a statement to hostages yesterday or today, without giving further details.
Prior to his statements, a source from the French Agency in Hamas said the movement had received a proposal by US special envoy Steve Witkov, who was providing a “ceasefire of 70 days in exchange for the release of ten hostages in two years”.
Another Palestinian source said that “10 hostages in life will be released in exchange for a 70 -day truce, the partial departure” of the Israeli army “from Gaza” and “the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners”.
However, a Witten spokesman denied that such an agreement was closed.
At the same time, the Israeli army announced that it had stopped rocket launched by Yemen, where Houthi guerrillas often target Israel after activating “sirens” of air defense in various areas.
Yesterday in the northern strip of Gaza, target for new intensive Israeli bombings, 33 Palestinians, most of their children, were killed at Fahmi Al Jartzawi and 19 at home in Jambalia, Civil protection said.
“It is indescribable: fear, horror, confusion, screaming children, smell of burnt human flesh, odor of charred objects, godfather odor, blood everywhere,” said Farah Nasser, who woke up when the school was bombed.
The Israeli army said it targeted “terrorists” in the area where the educational institution is located.
“I had never seen so many injuries from explosions throughout my life,” especially “young children,” said Victoria Rose, a member of a British medical mission at Nasser Hhan Younis (south) hospital.
The escalation of the attack by the Israeli army and the suffering of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, facing shortages of food, water and medicines, trigger an increasing international indignation.
It is characteristic that the German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz He said yesterday that he could no longer support the Netanyahu government. “Honestly, I don’t understand what the Israeli army is doing in Gaza,” he said.
However, Berlin will continue to sell weapons to Israel, hastened to clarify German diplomatic leader Johann Vadel.
THE Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gar Strear For his part, he talked about “probably the worst” attack with such humanitarian consequences against the “civilians” he has seen.
The approximately 2.4 million inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave, mostly displaced countless times, live under the siege of the Israeli army for over 19 months.
After more than two months of total ban on humanitarian aid, the Israeli authorities allowed last week to resume deliveries – with the dropper.
Yesterday, the newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), backed by US and Israeli governments, announced that it has begun food traditions to the pocket promising that “the flow of help will increase every day”.
The NGO, which refuses to cooperate with the UN and other organizations, also denounced “the death threats of Hamas against organizations that support humanitarian businesses in distribution facilities whose security guarantees GHF”, and “maneuvering to prevent residents”.
“We are hungry and thirst. For the name of God, we need something to eat, “said Ibrahim Bakr, a resident of Gaza.
Hamas fighters’ raid in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the trumpet of the war, claimed the lives of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, most of the civilians, according to the counting of the French Agency based on official data.
At least 53,977 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in the Israeli military campaign since then, according to the numbers by the Hamas Government Ministry of Health in the enclave, which are credible by the UN.
Israel increases to 450,000 soldiers
The Israeli government approved the recruitment yesterday until 450,000 soldiers by August 31, 2025, signaling a significant escalation in its military readiness, according to Israeli media.
“The quota, which currently amounts to 400,000 reserve soldiers, will increase to 450,000 and will be valid until August 31, 2025,” Yedioth Ahronoth said yesterday.
The newspaper notes that this increase will allow the service of the reserves already in active service and are essential for continuing war and operational activities until their release. Activists in Israel condemned the forthcoming increase in the power of reserves and called on the departure of the Benjamin Netanyahu government.
The army announced that it had intercepts a rocket and a “missile” thrown by Yemen
The Israeli army today announced that it has stopped a rocket and another “projectile” thrown by Yemen, the country in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula where the Houthi guerrillas often target Israeli territory.
“After sirens were activated in several areas in Israel, a rocket launched by Yemen was intercepted,” the Israeli army said on his Telegram account around 05:15 local time (and Greek time).
Around 07:45, in a new announcement, the Israeli army added without giving further clarification that a “missile” thrown by Yemen was intercepted by the Air Force, without the need to warn the population by activating sirens.
From the outbreak of the war in Gaza, triggered by the unprecedented attack of the Hamas Palestinian movement in Israel on October 7, 2023, the Yemeni rebels, stating that they were acting in solidarity with the Palestinians, in Israel.
Almost all of them were stopped.
They also attacked ships that were linked to Israel off Yemen, mainly in the Red Sea, where about 12% of world trade passed.
On May 4, a rocket thrown by the rebels Houthi hit the perimeter of Israel’s Ben Gourion International Airport near Tel Aviv.
On Sunday, the Israeli army announced that it had intercepted a rocket launched by Yemen, while the Houthi rebels then announced that they had launched a “ballistic ultrasonic rocket” in the direction of the airport in Israel.
In retaliation for the attacks, the Israeli army has launched many strikes in recent months against the target of Houthi rebels in Yemen, including ports and Sanai airport.
Backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, an sworn enemy of Israel, Houthi rebels control the capital Sanaaa and large parts of the war.
Information from AFP, Reuters, RES-EIA