“We are here to ask the government to sign any agreement to release the hostages. » Saturday April 27, more than two hundred days after the start of the war, several thousand people demonstrated in Tel Aviv to demand the release of the 129 hostages still held in the Gaza Strip, 34 of whom are considered dead by the Israeli army.
Earlier in the day, Hamas released a video in which two Israeli hostages appear, kidnapped and taken to Gaza during its attack on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel.
Despite fears and calls for restraint from the international community, Israel is still preparing to launch a ground offensive in Rafah, a town in the south of the Gaza Strip where a million and a half Palestinians are crowded together, many of them in tent camps, without water or electricity.
Hamas announced on Saturday, ” to study “ an Israeli counter-proposal for a truce in the fighting in Gaza associated with the release of hostages, the day after the arrival in Israel of a delegation of Egyptian mediators to try to relaunch the deadlocked negotiations.