On the evening of September 20 (Saturday) local time, large-scale mass rallies broke out across Israel. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to call for the immediate release of hostages trapped in Gaza and strongly oppose continued military operations.
The family members of the hostages were emotional during the rally, repeatedly stressing that the current fighting would only put the relatives of the detainees in a more dangerous position.
According to Reuters, the peninsula television confirmed that before the rally, the Hamas armed branch of the Qassam Brigade also made a tough response on Saturday, publicly publishing the "adieu photo" of 48 Israeli prisoners on the online platform. He also said that if Israel does not stop its military operations in Gaza, hostages will be held or will repeat the similarity of Israeli pilot Ron Alad.
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A name that symbolizes evaporation
One photo, forty-eight faces, circulated silently on the Internet. Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, released this collection of pictures they called "farewell photos" of Israeli prisoners they detained. Some are alive, some are believed to be dead。
This picture is not just a threat, it is more like an elaborate gauntlet, because the same name is printed beneath each photo-" by Ron Allard.”。
It was the evening of September 18th, when the ground offensive was ordered, and the Hamas-held Qasan brigade shouted directly to Israel in Hebrew, clearly telling Netanyahu: “Since you ordered the Gaza City, your prisoners don’t want to return alive.”
Their exact words were that the decision amounted to a death sentence for the hostagesPrisoners were scattered across the streets of Gaza, and if Israel insisted on launching and expanding the attack, the end would be one, disappearing like Ron Alad.
The name, like a ghost, has floated over Lebanon in 1986 to the present day. Hamas's intentions couldn't be more obvious. They directly named Netanyahu in Hebrew, saying that his ground offensive was the "attack on the 48 hostages". The death sentence”。
The hostage square in Tel Aviv has again gathered a large crowd of people. On Saturday night, family members in anxious waiting raised photos of disappeared loved ones, shouting their names, and urging the government to take immediate action to rescue the hostages. The scene was unusually agitated, crying and screaming of anger. After two years of agony, forty-eight hostages were still held alive in underground facilities in the Gaza Strip.
Increased discontent in Israel
Hamas has issued a strong signal at this time, and the dissatisfaction within Israel has continued to heat up.For several days, protests have erupted every week in Tel Aviv, people shout out the slogans of "stop the war", "to a ceasefire", and some hostage families have rushed to the front of the protests, emotionally expressing dissatisfaction with Israel.
A video released by Israel’s Hostage and Missing Families Forum on Tuesday (September 16) shows Hostage Mattan Zangok’s mother, Inaf Zangok, complaining loudly outside Prime Minister Netanyahu’s residence: “Go out! tell me in front of you how you lied to me?
Victory or death sentence.
Israel’s military deterrence relied on survival seemed to have gone into a dead end in the crisis. The ground operation called “Gideon 2” was intended to completely dismantle Hamas and show Israel’s determination and strength.
They openly declared that every advance by the Israeli army was equivalent to issuing a “death sentence” to the 48 hostages.This argument precisely hit the soft ribs of Israeli society.
The more deadly psychological warfare is that Hamas has moved out a long-awaited name-Ron Allard. The pilot, who disappeared in Lebanon in 1986 and whose whereabouts are still unknown, is an unhealable scar in Israel's collective memory. Hamas threatened with the name, suggesting today's hostages could repeat the same mistakes, far more lethal than artillery fire. At the cognitive level, it disintegrates the last bit of people's confidence in the military plan.
“The occupation of Gaza is the death penalty for our soldiers and our hostages at the same time!” said Yotam Cohen, the brother of the captured soldiers, revealing a deeper layer of cracks, between the nation’s cold military decisions and the kindness expected by the family of front soldiers. In their view, taking the lives of loved ones in exchange for a so-called “military victory” is absolutely unacceptable.
This disconnect between strategy and humanity is vividly reflected in a microscopic event. The Israeli army has claimed to have opened a so-called "safe corridor" to evacuate civilians. However, a civilian convoy of 500 people suffered an air raid precisely in this corridor, and 76 people died on the spot. The humanitarianism in propaganda is in great contrast with the cruel scene in reality, which further weakens the full legitimacy of its military operations.
The world is closing its doors.
As the internal cracks deepen, the outside world is also closing its doors to Israel.The long-term wartime policy is drastically deteriorating Israel’s international image and external environment, and the once solid “value alliance” has also created substantial cracks.
The wave of opposition from the international community has been morally condemned and upgraded to actions of real gold and silver. A report by the United Nations Independent Investigation Committee, for the first time, uses such a harsh accusation of "genocide."While in Brussels, the EU is brewing up an economic storm, planning to raise tariffs on Israeli imported goods from 3.2% to just one mechanical product, which is expected to lose 1.2 billion euros annually.
The sanctions have even pointed to individuals who have been listed on the EU’s list of potential sanctions by far-right politicians such as National Security Minister Ben-Guveer.
Behind this network are the stunning humanitarian catastrophe data in Gaza. 90% of the power facilities were destroyed, cholera outbreaks broke, and the known hunger deaths reached 435 people, including 115 children. The medical system collapsed completely, and the actual deaths may have long exceeded 65,000. These cold numbers have become the strongest basis for international action and have left all of Israel’s defences pale.
An ironic scene is that when Israeli officials still rely on a U.S. veto in the United Nations Security Council to obtain political asylum, protesters in the streets of Tel Aviv, But he shouted desperately to U.S. President Trump, asking him to intervene to help end the war.The government and the people have made diametrically opposite demands to the same external force, which exposes the rigidity of their diplomatic strategy and the serious deviation from public opinion.
In the face of this deepening isolation, Netanyahu raised the slogan of “developing a self-sufficient economy” in an attempt to show a tough confrontation gesture.But this declaration of isolationism, immediately rejected by Yotam Cohen: “What you choose for us is poverty, international isolation and diplomatic breakdown!” the clash of the two voices clearly outlines Israel’s two future in diplomatic trouble: either toward closure or to embrace breakdown.
conclusion
The conflict lasted for more than 700 days, leaving all the hostage families alive in suffering. The captured soldier’s father, Aaron Nimrod, revealed that 22 hostages are believed to be still alive. He humbly asked Netanyahu, hoping to reach an agreement in the Jewish New Year, “Please respect life.”
However, the hostage crisis that has evolved to this day is far more than a humanitarian relief. It is more like a presbyter, reflecting and amplifying the triple structural cracks that have long existed in Israel: the collapse of national trust, the failure of military strategy, and the breakdown of international relations.
Bridging these cracks is far more difficult and important than the outcome or defeat of any military operation. Perhaps the final answer is not buried under the ruins of Gaza City, but whether Israel can have the courage to face up to and repair these cracks that are tearing itself apart. Real reconciliation must begin with reconciliation with oneself.