Hostage mother decries decision to expand IDF ops. to Gaza City
“If you occupy parts of the Gaza Strip and the hostages are murdered, we will continue to you. Your hands will be stained with the blood of the hostages!”
A hostage mother and head of the Israel protest movement for the release of hostages, Einav Zangauker, said that the Israel security firm was “a death firm” during the last demonstration in Begin Gate in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
“This is the 673rd day when 49 male hostages and a hostage woman are still detained in the hell of Gaza. Last Thursday, the cabinet sealed the fate of hostages – the living will be murdered and the dead will disappear forever.”
This occurs one day after the security firm has approved the plans of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for taking control of the FDI of Gaza City.
“This decision has no public support! Most people want to end the war and bring everyone back to the house. The only thing Netanyahu has to do is put forward a complete agreement to end the war, real and achievable,” added Zangauker. “But Netanyahu has already decided to kill them and condemn us to an eternal war.”
“The State of Israel is not her government,” she added, and called on the public to close the country and the economy.
Protesters holding panels featuring remaining hostage photos in Gaza during a demonstration for a hostage agreement in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2025. (Credit: Paulina Patimer)
“I will finish with a direct address to the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: if you occupy parts of the Gaza Strip and the hostages are murdered, we will continue.
Still at the demonstration, Yotam Cohen, brother in hostage Nimrod Cohen, addressed US sent to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.
“ Save Israel of the Cabinet of Death and Death Eaters who direct him ”
“Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, not for the Israeli government to order the murder of the Israelis kidnapped from their home,” said Cohen. “All Israel and all the Jewish people stand behind you in the effort to put an end to this war. Proposed a concrete proposal to end the war and guarantee the return of all hostages – this week, before the start of the military operation.”
Thousands of people have also been seen to come together for a Square hostage hostage agreement on Saturday evening, Army Radio reported.
Witkoff is expected to meet the Prime Minister Qatari Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani on Saturday to discuss an agreement proposed to end the war which includes the release of the remaining 50 hostages, Axios reported earlier.
“I call here on the people of Israel – for the good of our heroic soldiers, for the good of the hostages which undergo a holocaust and barely survive – get out of your houses to stop the country!” He continued. “Let us take up the state of Israel, except the Cabinet of Death and the Death Eaters who direct it.”
At the meeting of the cabinet, the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich and the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir challenged any agreement which would result in temporary occupation of the Gaza Strip.
During a break at the meeting, the National Minister of Missions (RZP) Orit Strock would have shouted against the hostage coordinator, Gal Hirsch, who told TDS senior officials that he had asked that the objective of releaseing the hostages appears in TDS ‘mission, according to N12.
“What is not the mission-the mission is to eliminate Hamas,” she said.
Strock said the effort to return the captives is the reason why the soldiers are killed. Hirsch replied, according to the report, “our soldiers are fighting to save civilians and turning the hostages. It’s always like that. I did it myself. It’s like that.”
