Indonesia condemns Israel’s latest deadly airstrikes on Gaza

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,

said Ora Peled Nakash, a former senior officer in Israel’s navy and an organiser of the protests

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,

Svatitzky said

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,

the Tikva Forum of Hostages’ Families said in a statement

We are refusing to participate in a war that neglects and will kill our hostages,

Standing Together Co-Director Alon Lee Green said

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,

the group said

Why aren’t you fighting in the negotiations room? Why have you backed out of an agreement that could have brought everyone home

the forum asked the government

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,

he said of the crackdown on support for Palestine across many US educational institutions

The Islamic Resistance [Movement], Hamas, can no longer use the ceasefire, or even the hostages, as a bargaining chip,

he said of negotiations on the second stage

Things are very different now, ... We have a new [US] administration that says, ‘Release the hostages now – or else.'

Mitchell Barak – an Israeli pollster and former political aide to several senior Israeli political figures, including Netanyahu – told Al Jazeera

Trump has been clear: ‘Finish the job.’ The US will back anything that Israel chooses to do to achieve that end,

he said

These brutal massacres confirm once again that the Israeli occupation army only knows the language of killing, destruction, and genocide,

the statement said

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.”

Another protester named Joni Sar said

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,

said Efrat Ben Barak, protesting outside the parliament

Hamas rejected two concrete mediation proposals presented by the US special envoy, Steve Witkoff,

said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein

It was one bomb after the other, sometimes with just a few seconds between them. I could see the sky lighting up,

said Rosalia Bollen, at the UN’s child agency (UNICEF) from al-Muwasi camp, a coastal area Israel has said is a protected humanitarian zone

The vast majority of the wounded are children. We’re talking about large numbers of children with severed limbs,

he said in desperation, adding

Catherine Russell (singer)executive director

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.”

Catherine Russell, executive director of UNICEF, added

Resuming fighting will cost more hostages their lives,

they said as they announced a wave of rallies in Israel

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,

he continued

Hamas doesn’t want an escalation, but it will not surrender,

said one Palestinian analyst close to the militant group, which has been weakened by a 15-month war with Israel