The Israeli government asked the families of detainees in Gaza to stop protests demanding their return, while a war council meeting is expected at a later time regarding a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
Israeli Channel 12 said that the person responsible for the detainees file in the Israeli government asked during a meeting with the families to stop the protests demanding work on the return of their children, “because the government is doing everything to achieve that,” he said.
Yesterday, Sunday, the families of the detainees staged a sit-in and closed a street near the entrance to the Israeli Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv for 241 seconds, the number of those captured at the beginning of the war.
This comes as part of the ongoing movement to demand that the War Council work to reach an exchange deal and return the detainees.
The families moved their sit-in at the main entrance to the Ministry of Defense and announced that they would remain at the site until a new direction for an exchange deal was announced.
In the same context, Channel 12 said that the War Council will discuss in its meeting tonight a new direction for a new prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
Israeli Radio indicated that the army’s killing of 3 detainees in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza had major repercussions on the decision-making circle in Tel Aviv.
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War Council member Benny Gantz said that he spoke with the families of the prisoners about the possibilities of reaching an agreement, saying that there would be no problem in paying the price, but rather the problem lies in the ability to reach an agreement.
Earlier, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation revealed that the government is considering releasing two types of prisoners with high sentences in the upcoming exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance.
Two Egyptian sources revealed that Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are open to renewing the ceasefire and releasing detainees.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on members of his government to listen to the voices of the families of soldiers who were killed in the battles in the Gaza Strip.
In a speech before his government yesterday, Sunday, Netanyahu read what he said was the will of the families of these soldiers.
