Israeli hostage relatives storm Knesset session, violence spirals in West Bank • FRANCE 24 English

Good evening Tom there were angry and emotional scenes down at the Israeli knesset the parliament as a group of a dozen or so hostage family members got past security there and managed to burst into a meeting of the knesset finance committee so it wasn’t the the full Parliament prime minister Benjamin nety

Who wasn’t there but these protesters got through to speak to some of the members of the knesset or rather shout at them um brandishing um placards some with their relatives photos on um some of them shouting you will not sit here while our children die and they are

Demanding once again urgent action to bring their loved ones home um and some of them have been calling for a ceasefire to quite some time a deal to be struck with hamus to try and end the war or at least get their relatives home um others are saying that that the

Government is simply not doing enough now there’s been 108 days of War already um we know that benan Netanyahu has rejected hamas’s conditions for a ceasefire saying that would amount to surrender he did say that Israel was working on its own initiative to get the the hostages home but he didn’t

Elaborate on what that would be but this issue of the hostages fate is um has been long divices it’s getting all the more so there’ve also been protests outside netanyahu’s residences here here in Jerusalem and north of Tel Aviv in cesaria and there are big demonstrations every week with people saying now that

This needs to be the number one priority of the Israeli authorities now just tell us a bit more about what’s been happening in the West Bank because we talk a lot about the violence in Gaza but the ga the violence is not confined to Gaza uh scores of

Deaths in the West Bank these last uh 3 to four months just tell us what the latest is the situation is extremely tense in the occupied West Bank I mean it has been for quite some time but it’s been getting much worse since the October the 7th massacres so you’ve had an

Increasing number of deaths the UN has counted more than 350 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since October the 7th either shot dead by extremist Israeli settlers there or actually killed in Israeli Army raid s into neighborhoods where there are various Palestinian armed groups some branches Affiliated to Hamas some others to

Palestinian Islamic Jihad just a few days ago there was a really intense and long rage in the town of tarem that’s in the north of the West Bank near nablo that went on for nearly two whole days eight people uh Palestinians say were killed in that raid we went in there

Just after that raid ended and we could see there that the division are growing ever deeper and it’s this cycle of violence which seems to have no end in sight as

Dozens of family members of hostages held by Hamas stormed a committee meeting in Israel’s parliament Monday, demanding a deal to win their loved ones’ release. FRANCE 24’s senior reporter Catherine Norris Trent brings us the latest from Jerusalem and looks at the spiralling violence in the occupied West Bank.

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15 comments

  1. Maybe now F24 will admit that this war was never about the hostages…? Ha, just kidding, F24 will never😂

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    About the territories of the Russian Federation historically inhabited by Ukrainians

    Taking into account that for centuries Russia has systematically committed and continues to commit actions aimed at the destruction of national identity, the oppression of Ukrainians, the violation of their rights and freedoms, including on the lands historically inhabited by them in the Kuban, Starodub region, Northern and Eastern Slobozhan regions within the limits of modern Krasnodar region, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov regions of the Russian Federation,

    emphasizing the need for the Russian Federation to comply with its international obligations to ensure Ukrainians living in its territories, including those historically inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians, the right to receive education in the Ukrainian language and its free use, civil, social, cultural and religious rights, access to Ukrainian-language mass media information, the right to a peaceful assembly,

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  6. does anyone blame them?
    the people being held by Hamas are as much hostages of the Netanyahoo government,
    as they are of the leaders of Hamas.
    (not to mention the people of Gaza)

  12. Angry and against rhe givernment cannot solve the problem.These activist and famulies of hostages cannot solve problems but create more conflict.

    Ir they are strong and brave let them rescue the hostages bec.they feel they are more better than IDF and government.
    Many IDF soldiers risk their life and die just to reacue the hostages.

  14. So, now that protesting in Israel against Netanyahu is ok, can we protests in France against the same thing without it being called ‘hate-marches’?

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