Families of Israeli captives boo Netanyahu at parliament

Tel Aviv (Quds News Network) – Israeli occupation’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been booed by the families of captives held by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza during an address to parliament.

“Now! Now!” the families shouted from the gallery yesterday when Netanyahu promised to bring the captives home but said that he was told by Israeli field commanders that “more time” was needed.

“We wouldn’t have succeeded up until now to release more than 100 hostages without military pressure,” Netanyahu claimed.

“And we won’t succeed at releasing all the hostages without military pressure.”

A deal brokered in late November by the United States, Qatar and Egypt witnessed the release of more than 100 of the estimated 240 captives taken to Gaza during the surprise Hamas operation on October 7 on southern Israeli-occupied Palestine.

The occupying Israeli regime claims 129 captives are still held in Gaza.

“We won’t stop until victory,” Netanyahu said over the cries of the protesters in parliament.

The family members of the captives sat in the chamber looking down on the prime minister, holding posters of their relatives and intermittently interrupting him.

Netanyahu’s address came after his Likud party reported that he visited the Gaza Strip on Monday and promised to ramp up Israel’s onslaught there.

Israel’s Ministry of Finance says the war, which it foresees lasting through February, will likely incur an additional cost of at least $14bn in the 2024 budget.

Meanwhile, about three months of Israeli bombardment has killed more than 20,674 Palestinians and wounded 54,536 – most of them women and children.