AIRLINK 171.99 Decreased By ▼ -3.74 (-2.13%)
BOP 13.21 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (0.69%)
CNERGY 7.37 Decreased By ▼ -0.17 (-2.25%)
FCCL 43.39 Decreased By ▼ -0.52 (-1.18%)
FFL 14.88 Decreased By ▼ -0.13 (-0.87%)
FLYNG 26.45 Decreased By ▼ -0.45 (-1.67%)
HUBC 128.90 Decreased By ▼ -1.33 (-1.02%)
HUMNL 13.30 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.3%)
KEL 4.44 Decreased By ▼ -0.06 (-1.33%)
KOSM 6.04 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.33%)
MLCF 55.26 Decreased By ▼ -0.77 (-1.37%)
OGDC 213.20 Decreased By ▼ -1.57 (-0.73%)
PACE 5.94 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.67%)
PAEL 41.13 Increased By ▲ 0.23 (0.56%)
PIAHCLA 16.62 Increased By ▲ 0.30 (1.84%)
PIBTL 9.60 Decreased By ▼ -0.15 (-1.54%)
POWER 11.54 Decreased By ▼ -0.22 (-1.87%)
PPL 179.14 Decreased By ▼ -2.34 (-1.29%)
PRL 33.60 Decreased By ▼ -0.62 (-1.81%)
PTC 22.85 Decreased By ▼ -0.21 (-0.91%)
SEARL 94.00 Decreased By ▼ -1.72 (-1.8%)
SILK 1.16 Increased By ▲ 0.02 (1.75%)
SSGC 34.90 Decreased By ▼ -0.55 (-1.55%)
SYM 15.73 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.13%)
TELE 7.80 Decreased By ▼ -0.07 (-0.89%)
TPLP 10.83 Decreased By ▼ -0.15 (-1.37%)
TRG 60.68 Increased By ▲ 0.18 (0.3%)
WAVESAPP 10.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.11 (-1.02%)
WTL 1.32 Decreased By ▼ -0.03 (-2.22%)
YOUW 3.80 Increased By ▲ 0.03 (0.8%)
BR100 12,031 Decreased By -22.3 (-0.18%)
BR30 36,378 Decreased By -88.8 (-0.24%)
KSE100 113,776 Decreased By -580.1 (-0.51%)
KSE30 35,081 Decreased By -265.9 (-0.75%)

JERUSALEM: Families of hostages taken by Gaza booed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday as he addressed parliament, vowing to bring the captives home but saying “more time” was needed.

“Now! Now!” the families chanted from the gallery when Netanyahu said Israeli forces first needed to increase military pressure on Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

“We wouldn’t be able to secure the release of hostages without military pressure,” he said.

Netanyahu said he spoke to Israeli field commanders who said they needed “more time” to finish the mission.

Israeli hostage families start 5-day march on Netanyahu’s home

“We won’t stop until victory,” Netanyahu said over the cries of protesters.

Israel says 129 hostages, abducted on October 7 when Hamas gunmen attacked southern Israel, are still held in the Palestinian territory.

“We, my colleagues and I, aren’t sparing any effort,” Netanyahu added, to return “all of our hostages home”.

Netanyahu’s address came after his Likud party reported that he visited the Gaza Strip on Monday and vowed to step up the army’s assault in the Palestinian territory.

“I just came back from Gaza,” he said, according to a Likud party statement.

“We’re not stopping, we’re continuing to fight and we’re intensifying the fighting in the coming days. It’s going to be a long war that’s not close to ending.”

Comments

Comments are closed.