Middle East: Israel urges Gazans to evacuate 'combat zones'

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

Standing Together Co-Director Alon Lee Green said

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

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

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

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

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

Likud and Otzma Yehudit have agreed that the Otzma Yehudit faction will return to the Israeli government today, and the ministers of Otzma Yehudit will return to the government,

the parties said in a joint statement

Only then will Hamas release our hostages without jeopardising Israel’s security,

he had said