Rid us of our ‘murderous’ regime; besiege Knesset: Israeli captive’s father asks military chief
Father of an Israeli captive, who remains in Gaza alongside scores of others amid the Israeli regime’s stiff refusal to sign a ceasefire deal towards their release, asks the Israeli military chief to take on the regime rather than the war-torn coastal sliver.
"The chief of staff must take the 98th Division to the Knesset (Israeli parliament), besiege it, and rid us of this murderous” regime, Nimrod Cohen’s father, Yehuda, said, Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday.
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He was referring to the Israeli military’s 98th Paratroopers Division, which has been heavily involved in the regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on Gaza as well as a 2014 wholesale military assault against the Palestinian territory.
The regime launched the genocide as a means of, what it has called, defeating Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement, forcing Gaza’s population out, and enabling release of those Israeli captives, who remained there.
Around 22 months on, though, the war has claimed the lives of more than 61,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and, according to Israeli daily Ha’aretz, also killed at least 20 of the captives as a result of the regime’s indiscriminate assaults.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the war’s unashamed mastermind, however, insists that the genocide is the only means of bringing the captives back.
Critics, including former chief of the regime’s Shin Bet spy agency, Ronen Bar have responded by calling him the only impediment to a ceasefire deal that would return the captives, citing Netanyahu’s deliberate procrastination tactics.
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Cohen also decried the regime for its “betrayal,” saying, “The only solution is to take steps against it to weaken it.”
‘Death sentence’ for captives
Hamas and the regime reached a deal in January that enabled the exchange of a number of the captives with Palestinian prisoners.
Tel Aviv, though, refused to extend the accord as it had been planned and even stepped up the genocide.
Now, he is even reportedly pushing for Gaza’s complete reoccupation.
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Also on Tuesday, Nimrod’s mother partook in a protest in Tel Aviv, addressing the ambition as a “death sentence” for the captives.
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