During the 50-day strike, 73 Israelis have been slayed, along with 66 warriors, and between a singular, 065 and a pair of, 101 Palestinians have been eliminated, a lot of those individuals have been surrounded by been non-military people.
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Gaza is lying in ruins after the war and a U.N official on Wednesday called for an end to the ” inexcusable” Israeli blockade of the territory that has helped prevent rebuilding.
Hamas has long been silent over the issue of the Israeli captive soldiers, and this pushed Israel to admit that a number of its soldiers were captured, added Hamdan.
“We will not deal with Hamas and we will not negotiate with it”.
“We are doing everything in our ability to return Avra to Israel, just as we are in contact with the family of the other Israeli citizen in order to bring him back to Israel as well”, Netanyahu said afterwards.
Gershon Baskin, an Israeli-American social and political activist who was involved in the Gilad Schalit swap negotiations, tweeted on Friday, “Latest messages from Hamas to me: Israeli-Ethiopian citizen may still be in Gaza held by Hamas”.
Israel does not allow its citizens to enter Gaza, partly over fears that they may be used as bargaining chips to demand concessions including the release of prisoners.
“He instructed his coordinator for missing persons Lior Lotan to be in touch with Mengistu’s family, and he has met with them six times”.
“All he had to say to them sounded like a series of threats and intimidations”.
Netanyahu’s remarks came a day after Israel’s announcement that two men – Avraham Mengistu, who is of Ethiopian descent, and a Bedouin from Israel’s Arab minority whose identity is under a gag order – are being held captive in the Gaza Strip.
“Hamas said in the beginning it didn’t know anything about him”.
Mangisto crossed from Israel to Gaza on September 7, 2014; an Israeli court lifted media restrictions on reporting his disappearance Thursday.
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Lotan warned Mengistu’s family against making such allegations, saying it would play into the hands of Hamas.
