On the first day of 2025, the Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said:
If Hamas does not release the 100 hostages it has been holding for 454 days and halt its rocket attacks on the Jewish state, Israel will deal it “blows with a force not seen in Gaza for a long time.”
He also said: “I call on Gaza’s residents to rise up against the murderous Hamas group, which also uses you as human shields, and to bring about the release of the hostages, to prevent suffering and end the war,”
and he highlighted Israel’s “willingness to make far-reaching compromises in accordance with the principles outlined by the U.S. president.”
Can Hamas survive, and keep the death toll riding? Or is there an end in sight? Can the hostages be freed, and stop the Palestinian deaths?
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