According to what CNN reports, however, he is involved in the operation to free the four hostages an Israeli officer died and around 100 Palestinians were killed. Hamas, on the other hand, talks about at least 210 Palestinians dead, states that the hostages in the hands of the organization are still numerous and threatens that that number could grow further. The prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a stand again: “Today Israel does not give in to terrorism. We will not stop until we complete the mission and bring all the abductees home.” But in the meantime the UN places Israel on a black list for having “committed serious violations against children”. For his part, the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyehstates: “Our people will not give up and the resistance will continue to defend our rights in the face of this criminal enemy.”
The American president Joe Biden comments with satisfaction on the release of the Israeli hostages. “The United States will continue to work until “all” the hostages in the hands of Hamas are freed,” the head of the White House said at a press conference from Paris together with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. “We will not stop working until all the hostages have returned home.” Meanwhile, the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) instructed the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations to request a emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the repercussions of what he called “a gruesome massacre“. “The Israeli assault on the Nuseirat camp – writes the Palestinian agency Wafa – cost the lives of “hundreds of martyrs and left numerous others injured”. Abbas therefore underlined that Israel continues to exploit international silence and US support to “perpetrate crimes that violate all resolutions on international legitimacy and international law”.
