MADRID Dec. 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has called on the country’s political class to agree and promote a pact with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) for the release of the hostages who are still held captive in the Strip. of Gaza, thereby demanding that they do “their job.
“The hostages are in clear and immediate danger. I call on our leaders to act with all their power to reach an agreement. It is your job, it is your responsibility,” Herzog said during a Jewish ceremony in Tel Aviv alongside soldiers wounded in the framework of the war in the Middle East.
However, the Israeli president has elaborated that Hamas is a “depraved enemy” whose only objective is to harm the State of Israel through “psychological maneuvers”, according to statements reported by the local newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a large-scale offensive against Israeli territory, leaving almost 1,400 dead and more than 240 hostages, of which an estimated one hundred are still in captivity although their health status is unknown. The Islamist attacks provoked a bloody military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
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