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Few Israelis ‘are buying’ Netanyahu’s reasons for attacking Gaza
Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg said the mood has changed and few in Israel believe Prime Minister Netanyahu’s claim that the resumption of attacks on Gaza will help free the captives.
“The situation has changed,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.
Investigations into Netanyahu’s behaviour and those of senior staff in the prime minister’s office have been opened by the national police and Shin Bet security service, he said. Protests have also been rekindled against the backdrop of these new investigations and due to the testimonies of returned captives that “Israeli hostages are truly physically languishing” in Gaza.
“ …Which means that very few Israelis are buying Netanyahu’s claims that these renewed bombings are applying pressure that will ultimately achieve the war’s goal and bring about the release of the hostages,” Goldberg said.
If protests are held later today and tomorrow, as scheduled, Goldberg said, Netanyahu and his new appointee to the head of the military, Eyal Zamir, will not have emerged from this latest attack on Gaza “triumphant”.
Hamas official says Israeli attack a ‘death sentence’ for captives: Report
Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, says Israel is sacrificing the lives of its remaining captives in Palestine.
“Netanyahu’s decision to return to war is a decision to sacrifice the prisoners of the occupation and a death sentence against them,” al-Risheq said in a statement shared by CNN.
“The enemy will not achieve through war and destruction what it has failed to achieve through negotiations,” he added.
Israeli attacks on Gaza mostly killed ‘women, children and elderly people’: Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office has released a new statement on Israel’s latest wave of deadly attacks in Gaza, reporting that most victims are women, children and elderly people, with some “entire families” wiped out.
“These brutal massacres committed by the Israeli occupation army reaffirm that this occupation only understands the language of killing, destruction and genocide,” said the media office.
The attacks come as Israel also continues to blockade the enclave for a third week, in what the media office said is a “war tactic to break the will of our Palestinian people”.
Nevertheless, the people of Gaza “will not be intimidated by these crimes and will continue their steadfastness and legitimate struggle until the Israeli occupation is removed from our land”, it said.
The media office called on the international community, including the UN, rights groups and aid organisations, to take immediate action to oppose Israel’s “crimes” and hold Israeli leaders accountable. “The world cannot continue to stand by,” it said.
Relatives mourn near the bodies of victims killed in an Israeli strike at al-Mamdani Hospital in Gaza City on March 18
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