Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that there will be no ceasefire in Gaza without the return of Israeli prisoners held by Hamas since October 7.

“I want you to know that there is one thing we will not do: There will be no ceasefire without the return of our kidnappers,” Netanyahu said during a visit to Raman Air Base.

“Both our enemies and our friends. We will continue until they (Hamas) are defeated. We have no choice,” his office quoted him as saying in a written statement.

Last night, many Israelis demonstrated in front of Netanyahu’s headquarters and demanded his resignation, blaming him for the occupation army’s failure in the face of Palestinian resistance. Some of them said that Netanyahu’s continued rule poses a danger to Israel.

It is noteworthy that on October 7th, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a military unit of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and other Palestinian resistance units launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation against the Israelis. occupation, and has so far killed more than 1,542 Israelis and injured 5,431 of them.

The Palestinian resistance also captured 240 Israelis, and announced its intention to exchange them for more than 6,000 prisoners in occupation prisons.

Israel continues its aggression against Gaza, bombing homes, schools, hospitals and mosques, leading to the deaths of more than 9,770 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and wounding 24,000, destroying entire neighborhoods and displacing most. population

For more than a week, Israel has been carrying out a ground operation in the besieged area, but it has suffered painful losses at the hands of the opposition, with more than 30 of its officers killed and 260 wounded and driven from the field.