Israel Army chief says he will make Hamas understand the need to free hostages

The Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, assured this Tuesday that his troops are working to make the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) understand the need to release all the hostages. who are still kidnapped since October 7, 2023.

“I see the situation that Hamas is in, they see every day what you are doing to them and they understand that this situation is almost unbearable,” Halevi told IDF officers and troops in the vicinity of Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to ‘The Times of Israel’.

Thus, the highest military official of the Israeli Army has advocated continuing to act and pressure Hamas until the Islamist group releases the nearly one hundred people it still holds hostage in underground tunnels in the Palestinian enclave. although his state of health is unknown.

“We will not stop, we will bring (Hamas) to the point where they understand that they need to release all the hostages, otherwise the very professional work that you are doing will continue, and it means more prisoners and more dead operatives,” the lieutenant stressed. General Halevi.

Israel and Hamas are once again sitting at the negotiating table to try to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, the scene of an Israeli military offensive that has already claimed nearly 45,900 lives and that arose in response to the Hamas attacks on October 7, which left almost 1,200 dead and 240 hostages.