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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly advocating for a military solution to rescue hostages held by Hamas. According to an Israeli source, diplomatic efforts have stalled, prompting Netanyahu to consider expanding military operations in Gaza. Approximately 20 hostages remain captive since the attack by Hamas on 7th October 2023.

 

Israeli and US officials have maintained ongoing discussions, but hopes for a diplomatic resolution seem to be fading. The Israeli source revealed that Netanyahu believes Hamas is not interested in negotiating for the hostages' release. Consequently, a military approach is being prioritised.

 

In Tel Aviv, thousands have taken to the streets urging the government to act swiftly to ensure the hostages’ safe return. Emotions ran high with family members, like Ilay David, stating their loved ones’ lives hang in the balance. A video released by Hamas showed a visibly frail Evyatar David, highlighting the gravity of the situation, reported ABC News.

 

Tensions escalated following the visit of US officials, including Steve Witcoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, who met with affected families. Their visit coincides with growing global concerns about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where famine looms and malnutrition claims lives.

 

The Hamas-run health ministry reports that starvation in Gaza has caused at least 175 deaths, including 93 children. Despite Israel’s assertions about sufficient aid provision, international organisations and the UN dispute this, citing ongoing malnutrition.

 

The Israeli source mentioned humanitarian aid continues to reach non-combat zones of Gaza. However, areas under Hamas control remain challenging. The international community watches closely as this complex humanitarian and security crisis unfolds, with calls for an immediate and sustainable resolution echoing worldwide.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from ABC News 2025-08-04

 

Um... "military action to free hostages"? What have they been doing? Does this mean less focus on genocide?

Videos of emaciated Israeli hostages in Gaza increase pressure on Netanyahu for a ceasefire

 

New images of emaciated Israeli hostages held in Gaza have horrified Israelis and added pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire with Hamas, even as his government considers another expansion of the nearly 22-month war.

 

The videos released late last week by militant groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad show two skeletal hostages pleading for their lives. In one, Evyatar David says he is digging his own grave and speaks of days without food. In the other, Rom Braslavsky writhes in agony on a dirty mattress and says injuries in his foot prevent him from being able to stand.

 

The videos led tens of thousands of Israelis to take to the streets on Saturday night and demand a ceasefire deal, in one of the largest turnouts for the weekly protests in recent months.

 

Videos of emaciated Israeli hostages in Gaza increase pressure on Netanyahu for a ceasefire

It's disgusting that the hostages haven't been released by Hamas.

 

Especially now as we see them being forced to dig their own graves while being filmed for the world to see.

 

Absolute savages. 

 

Starmer's promises haven't helped either. He's turning out to be even worse than Blair. 

Gazans are starving too , why shouldn't the hostages ?

Aren't the Gazans hostages too.

If you say release all hostages , it would include all people in the Gaza strip.

 

Not real smart of Hamas to show those video's.

Like Netanyahu cares about some Israelis protesting in the streets.

28 minutes ago, FlorC said:

Gazans are starving too , why shouldn't the hostages ?

Aren't the Gazans hostages too.

If you say release all hostages , it would include all people in the Gaza strip.

 

Not real smart of Hamas to show those video's.

Like Netanyahu cares about some Israelis protesting in the streets.

Your pathetic post reminds me of a quote from Golda Meir: 

"It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think."

Since he nominated DJT for a Nobel Peace Prize how about someone nominating him for Best Actor Academy Award. How he lies with a straight face is an art worth recognition. Hostages are an obstacle for the greater Israel project. He’s been pushed to finish the job so in his mind he’ll have to go in harder and the hostages will have to be sacrificed. They’ve served their purpose. 

17 minutes ago, 300sd said:

Your pathetic post reminds me of a quote from Golda Meir: 

"It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think."

Your friend Adolf had a similar mentality. Ultimately the good prevails over evil as it did in 1945 and will be the same today. 

Go Bibi..

2 minutes ago, Peter Crow said:

Go Bibi..

I’d put it a bit stronger than that.

14 hours ago, bannork said:

Videos of emaciated Israeli hostages in Gaza increase pressure on Netanyahu for a ceasefire

 

New images of emaciated Israeli hostages held in Gaza have horrified Israelis and added pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire with Hamas, even as his government considers another expansion of the nearly 22-month war.

 

The videos released late last week by militant groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad show two skeletal hostages pleading for their lives. In one, Evyatar David says he is digging his own grave and speaks of days without food. In the other, Rom Braslavsky writhes in agony on a dirty mattress and says injuries in his foot prevent him from being able to stand.

 

The videos led tens of thousands of Israelis to take to the streets on Saturday night and demand a ceasefire deal, in one of the largest turnouts for the weekly protests in recent months.

 

Videos of emaciated Israeli hostages in Gaza increase pressure on Netanyahu for a ceasefire

 

 Netanyahu believes... I don't believe any comment made by netanyahu, an evil man with zero belief in any form of human rights for anybody. 

 

29 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

 Netanyahu believes... I don't believe any comment made by netanyahu, an evil man with zero belief in any form of human rights for anybody. 

 

Under Trump, he got fewer restraints. He got more with his flaterry and playing Trump. Biden was tougher on Netanyahu. 

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I’d put it a bit stronger than that.

Thank's my "Go" doesn't mean "resign",  meant "Keep up your great work"...

 

This man of steel is doing everyone else's dirty work.

29 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Under Trump, he got fewer restraints. He got more with his flaterry and playing Trump. Biden was tougher on Netanyahu. 

OR mossad has more dirt on Trump.

Dirt on Biden was no problem , everybody ignored it anyway.

Hamas used human shields to justify their barbaric cause.

 

Go for it Bibi! End their negotiating terrorist cause.  

Hamas has stalled long enough and God know they've been given chances to end it peacefully.

 

 

2 hours ago, Peter Crow said:

Go Bibi..

Where should he go? They only country that would possibly accept him would be the political people in the USA.

 

Nobody else would want him with all the problems that he would bring with him. The ICC at the Hague would certainly take him, but I don't think that would be an option for him.

43 minutes ago, Peter Crow said:

Thank's my "Go" doesn't mean "resign",  meant "Keep up your great work"...

 

This man of steel is doing everyone else's dirty work.

He certainly is NOT doing ANY dirty work for me. Slaughtering innocent men, women, children and babies is NOT dirty work, it is an abomination and a war crime. Starving Palestinians  and collective punishment is NOT dirty work, it is an abomination and a crime against humanity.

 

If you agree with Netanyahu, you must be a worse person than he is. At least he is doing it to save himself from going to jail.

 

What is your weak and pathetic excuse for supporting a mass murderer?

7 minutes ago, billd766 said:

What is your weak and pathetic excuse for supporting

a bloodthirsty terrorist organisation, operating from behind a consenting human shield.

29 minutes ago, billd766 said:

He certainly is NOT doing ANY dirty work for me. Slaughtering innocent men, women, children and babies is NOT dirty work, it is an abomination and a war crime. Starving Palestinians  and collective punishment is NOT dirty work, it is an abomination and a crime against humanity.

 

If you agree with Netanyahu, you must be a worse person than he is. At least he is doing it to save himself from going to jail.

 

What is your weak and pathetic excuse for supporting a mass murderer?

 

Why are Palestinians starving do you think?  Could it be that instead of using the billions upon billions of aid money they were given to be self reliant (on food and on power) they instead used it for rockets, terror tunnels etc?  Could it be that they attacked the country they are dependent upon for some of their food/electricity/water and took their citizens hostage?  Do you not think that they have the power in their own hands to put an end to this by returning the hostages, laying down their arms and surrendering?  

 

You are blaming the wrong person.  The Palestinians plight has always been in their own hands and is of their own making.   They can end this whenever they want. 

4 hours ago, AustinRacing said:

Your friend Adolf had a similar mentality. Ultimately the good prevails over evil as it did in 1945 and will be the same today. 

 

   Yet another Anti Israeli mentioning the Nazis .

You guys just cannot stop the Nazi references 

There are international warrants out for his arrest by the ICC on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Jew should be surrendering, not planning more blood baths. 🙂

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

 Netanyahu believes... I don't believe any comment made by netanyahu, an evil man with zero belief in any form of human rights for anybody. 

 

 

   What did Netanyahu say (in this story) that you do not believe ?

1 minute ago, Packer said:

There are international warrants out for his arrest by the ICC on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Jew should be surrendering, not planning more blood baths. 🙂

 

   Its a war crime to take hostages and its a war crime to treat prisoners/hostages inhumanely .

   The ICC needs to assist the Jewish hostages rather than to arrest the Jew trying to free the hostages 

57 minutes ago, billd766 said:

it is an abomination and a war crime. Starving Palestinians  and collective punishment is NOT dirty work, it is an abomination and a crime against humanity.

 

There are already warrants out for his and another Jew's arrest on such charges. 🙂

 

Likely more coming for the hundreds of IDF personnel posting videos of their war crimes on social media. 🙂

 

Another poster mentioned that those who don't surrender to face justice for their war crimes should be killed in order to face justice for such. That's a lot of Jews that will need executing. not sure if he promotes guns, bombs or gas chambers though. 

1 minute ago, Packer said:

 

There are already warrants out for his and another Jew's arrest on such charges. 🙂

 

Likely more coming for the hundreds of IDF personnel posting videos of their war crimes on social media. 🙂

 

Another poster mentioned that those who don't surrender to face justice for their war crimes should be killed in order to face justice for such. That's a lot of Jews that will need executing. not sure if he promotes guns, bombs or gas chambers though. 

 

  Well done, got another Nazi reference in .

Wonder why Anti Jews keep referencing Nazis ?

Wonder what the connection is ?

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Well done, got another Nazi reference in .

Wonder why Anti Jews keep referencing Nazis ?

Wonder what the connection is ?

 

I can see a connection between Nazi's and Israel, they both attempt(ed) genocide of a specific peoples.

 

We are currently in the period of Holocaust II

5 hours ago, FlorC said:

Gazans are starving too , why shouldn't the hostages ?

 

Of course. What are they supposed to do, magically order in a bowl of Warsaw Ghetto Gruel or Buchenwald Biscuits via tractor beam. 🙂

 

7 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

 

I can see a connection between Nazi's and Israel, they both attempt(ed) genocide of a specific peoples.

 

We are currently in the period of Holocaust II

 

He's just playing dumb. 🙂

 

 

Well, let's hope he's playing....... 🙂

5 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

 

We are currently in the period of Holocaust II

 

   That was the attempt on Oct 7 th .

Hamas tried for a Holocaust 11

Jews are resisting and fighting back this time 

37 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

 

I can see a connection between Nazi's and Israel, they both attempt(ed) genocide of a specific peoples.

 

We are currently in the period of Holocaust II

 

During the time of the Nazi's the Jewish population decreased from 9.7 million to 3.6 million.   Genocide. 

The Palestinian population has increased from 2 million in 1990 to 5 million today.   Not genocide.

 

Learn just a little bit of history and you won't sound like a hyperbolic silly sausage on internet forums.