The reality is that this attack [in Gaza] is being used as a tool for political interests. The way [they] operate is to create this external threat and accuse those who raise their voices of being antidemocratic,
They can still be brought home. And those who did not survive deserve to be returned and buried with dignity … We must return to the ceasefire and negotiations, and secure their release. A deal is the only way to bring them all back. Please, do not let other families suffer the same fate as mine,
The past weeks have proven … Hamas will never return all the hostages willingly. Only massive military pressure, a complete blockade including cutting off electricity and water, and occupation of territories that will lead to Hamas’s collapse, will cause them to beg for a ceasefire and a deal that will return all the hostages together, in one stage,
We are refusing to participate in a war that neglects and will kill our hostages,
The hostage families demand a meeting this morning [Tuesday] with the prime minister, the defence minister and the head of the negotiating team in which [the officials] will clarify how they can guarantee that hostages won’t be affected by the military pressure and how they are planning to get them home,
Why aren’t you fighting in the negotiations room? Why have you backed out of an agreement that could have brought everyone home
They’re alone. They don’t have any friends left, not in the White House, not in the Congress and not even on college campuses,
The Islamic Resistance [Movement], Hamas, can no longer use the ceasefire, or even the hostages, as a bargaining chip,
Things are very different now, ... We have a new [US] administration that says, ‘Release the hostages now – or else.'
Trump has been clear: ‘Finish the job.’ The US will back anything that Israel chooses to do to achieve that end,
These brutal massacres confirm once again that the Israeli occupation army only knows the language of killing, destruction, and genocide,
The only explanation one can see for the war restarting now is coalitional needs of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, that he needs to strengthen the staying power of the coalition to keep himself out of the investigations and out of jail.”
I could not sit in the office today after the night we’ve been through, after the vicious step that Netanyahu and his government took,
Hamas rejected two concrete mediation proposals presented by the US special envoy, Steve Witkoff,
It was one bomb after the other, sometimes with just a few seconds between them. I could see the sky lighting up,
The vast majority of the wounded are children. We’re talking about large numbers of children with severed limbs,
Reports and images emerging from the Gaza Strip following today’s attacks are beyond horrifying. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed, including more than 130 children, representing the largest single-day child death toll in the last year.”
Resuming fighting will cost more hostages their lives,
We received no less than 400 cases in less than two hours. We received many bodies and parts of bodies, most of them children and women,
Hamas doesn’t want an escalation, but it will not surrender,