from AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 05:15
https://sh.itjust.works/post/46003748
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum: Bring Them Home Now wrote on social media that Israel’s strike on Qatar last week shows “every time a deal approaches, Netanyahu sabotages it”.
The group’s comments come after Israel carried out a strike on senior Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital of Doha, which Hamas said killed five of it members and a Qatari security official.
On Saturday, Netanyahu said getting rid of Hamas leaders in Qatar “would rid the main obstacle” to releasing the hostages and ending the war.
He also accused Hamas of blocking all ceasefire attempts in order to drag out the war in Gaza.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio travelled to Israel on Saturday and is due to meet with Netanyahu as Israel faces global condemnation for the attack.
However, families of the hostages described the Israeli PM’s response as “the latest excuse for failing to bring home” their loved ones.
“The targeted operation in Qatar proved beyond any doubt that there is one obstacle to returning the 48 hostages and ending the war: Prime Minister Netanyahu,” they said.
“The time has come to end the excuses designed to buy time so he can cling to power.”
The group added that Netanyahu’s “stalling” had cost “the lives of 42 hostages and threatens the lives of additional hostages who are barely surviving”.
Before his departure, Rubio said US President Donald Trump was not happy with the strike on Qatar, but stressed that the US-Israeli relationship was “very strong”
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