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NETANYAHU REPEATS THREAT TO SEIZE TERRITORY IN GAZA AS ANTI-HAMAS
PROTESTS CONTINUE  
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Lorenzo Tondo
March 26, 2025
The Guardian
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_ Israeli PM warns of seizure of territories and ‘other measures’
if Hamas refuses to release remaining hostages _

Palestinians demonstrate for peace and against Hamas in heavily
destroyed northern Gaza town of Beit Layiha on Wednesday., Saher
Alghorra for The New York Times

 

Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated Israeli threats to seize territory in
Gaza if Hamas refuses to release the remaining Israeli hostages, as,
for the second consecutive day, hundreds of Palestinians joined
protests against the militant group and demanding the end of the war.

The Israeli prime minister’s warning came a week after Israel
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operation in the territory, shattering the relative calm of a January
ceasefire with Hamas.

“The more Hamas
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release our hostages, the more powerful the repression we exert will
be,” Netanyahu told a hearing in parliament, which was occasionally
interrupted by shouting from opposition members.

He added: “I say this to my colleagues in the Knesset, and I say it
to Hamas as well: this includes the seizure of territories, along with
other measures I will not elaborate here.”

Hamas warned on Wednesday that hostages may be killed if Israel
attempts to use its military to retrieve them. “Every time the
occupation attempts to retrieve its captives by force, it ends up
bringing them back in coffins,” the group said in a statement.

Of the 251 hostages seized during Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023,
which triggered the war, 58 are still held in Gaza
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Israeli military says are dead.

For the second consecutive day, hundreds of Palestinians have joined
protests in northern Gaza, shouting anti-Hamas slogans and calling for
an end to the war with Israel
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display of public anger against the militant group.

On Tuesday, videos and photographs shared on social media, which
appeared to be authentic, showed hundreds of people, mostly men,
chanting: “Hamas out” and: “Hamas terrorists” in Beit Lahiya.

Some protesters were seen carrying banners emblazoned with slogans
including: “Stop the war” and: “We want to live in peace”. At
least one appeal to join the protest was circulating on the social
media network Telegram.

“I don’t know who organised the protest,” one man told Agence
France-Press. “I took part to send a message on behalf of the
people: enough with the war.” He said he had seen “members of the
Hamas security forces in civilian clothing breaking up the protest”.

A statement released by family elders from Beit Lahiya expressed
support for the protests against Israel’s offensive and its
tightened blockade. They also said the community fully supported armed
resistance against Israel and rejected “any attempt to exploit
legitimate popular demands by a fifth column”, apparently referring
to opponents of Hamas.

In a separate development on Wednesday, at least nine Palestinians
were killed by two separate Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza, medics
said.

One strike hit a group of Palestinians gathered outside a charity
providing hot meals in the Nuseirat refugee camp. At least five
people, including a woman and her adult daughter, were killed by the
strike, according to the al-Awda hospital, which received the
casualties.

The resumption of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip had
displaced 142,000 people in seven days, the UN said on Wednesday,
warning of dwindling stocks of humanitarian aid.

“In just one week, 142,000 people have been displaced,” the
spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, said,
adding that about 90% of Gaza’s population had been displaced at
least once between the start of the war on 7 October 2023 and January
of this year.

There has been no sign that Israel will open entry points to allow
essential aid to flow or ease its new offensive
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The Gaza health ministry said more than 50,000 Palestinians had been
killed in Gaza and another 113,408 wounded since the beginning of the
war.

_AFP, Reuters and AP contributed to this report_

 

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