Netanyahu In Pressure Related To Attacks On Israeli Rafah And Release Of Hostages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu/PHOTO DOK IST

JAKARTA - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced pressure as he considered an attempted operation to defeat Hamas in Rafah that made it difficult to hope to repatriate Israeli hostages.

Demonstrations against the government carried out by families and supporters of more than 130 hostages still detained in Gaza have become routine action. Protesters demanded a ceasefire agreement with Hamas to return them.

On the other hand, there are demands against the Israeli government and military (IDF) to continue Rafah's operations against Hamas who survive around the city of Rafah.

"We praise the Israeli government and the IDF for entering the Rafah," said Mirit Hoffman, spokesman for the Mothers of IDF Soldiers, the group representing the families of military personnel on duty, who wanted a uncompromising line to pressure Hamas to surrender.

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"We think this is the way negotiations are carried out in the Middle East," Reuters reported on Wednesday, May 8.

This opposing pressure reflects a 'breakup' in Netanyahu's cabinet between centrally literate ministers fears this condition will keep Washington, Israel's most important ally and the arms supplier, and a hardline nationalist group determined to remove Hamas from the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Hamas said it had accepted a ceasefire proposal brokered by Egypt to stop fighting in exchange for hostage exchanges with Palestinian prisoners.

Israeli officials rejected the offer, accusing Hamas of changing the terms of the agreement.

But this has not stopped negotiations and diplomacy continues, with CIA chief Bill Burns in Israel meeting Netanyahu, Wednesday, May 8.