The American envoy Steve Whittov meets with the hostages of the hostage Gaza in Tel Aviv

On Saturday, American envoy Steve Whitsouf met with families Israeli hostages are still detained in Gaza In Tel Aviv, fears of the prisoners remained for nearly 22 months in the war.

The hostages families were protesting in Tel Aviv, and urged the government of Israel to push strongly to release their loved ones. Witkoff, who was received with some applause and appeals to help, join a closed meeting.

Online joint videos showed Witkoff arriving when families chanted “by bringing them home!” And “we need to help you.”

The hostages of the lost families forum confirmed the meeting, which came A week later, after Witkoff resigned the ceasefire talksBlame the definition of enthusiasm and a pledge to find other ways to liberate the hostages and make Gaza safe.

After the meeting, the forum issued a statement saying that Witkeov had given them a personal commitment that he and President Trump will work to return the remaining hostages.

“We will make your children at home and hold Hamas responsible for any bad works on their part. We will do what is appropriate for the people of Ghazan,” Witkev said at the meeting.

Of the 251 hostages were kidnapped by terrorists led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, about 20 years old is believed to be alive in Gaza. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second largest militant group in Gaza, released separate videos from the individual hostages this week, which led to anger between hostages and Israeli society.

The Israeli media did not broadcast videos, describing it as propaganda, but the 21 -year -old ROM family, the Rom Blesservsky family, allowed the issuance of a photo showing him clearly in an unknown location. After watching the video, Tami Braslavsky, his mother, blamed the senior Israeli officials and demanded that she be met.

“They broke my child, I want him to the house now,” Braslasky told Ynet on Thursday. “Look at him: thin, lame, crying. All his bones are outside.”

The demonstrators called on the government of Israel to conclude a deal to end the war, and invite them to “stop this nightmare and get them out of the tunnels.”

“Do the right thing and do that now,” said Lior Shoriev, the chief strategy official at the hostage forum and the missing family forum.

Wittouf’s meeting with the families came a day after his ambassador, he and the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Hakapi He toured one of the distribution sites of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is supported by Israel and Israel In the southern city of Rafah in Gaza.

“We have received a briefing from (IDF) and we talked to people on Earth. GHF offers more than a million meals a day, an incredible achievement!” Hakapi said at the social media post.

The four distribution sites in GHFAnd controlled by the areas controlled by the Israeli army, have become points of despair, with mass crowds of people who are gathering abroad, but they suffer from fire from the Israeli forces or trample in the resulting crushing.

On Saturday, hospitals in Gaza reported the killing of more than ten people, eight of whom were food students, with Israeli fire.

Near the GHF distribution site, Yahia Youssef, who came to help on Saturday morning, described a view now familiar. After helping to carry out three people who were shot, the Associated Press told the Associated Press that he looked around and saw others lying on the ground bleeding.

“It is the same daily episode,” said Youssef.

In response to questions about many eyewitnesses about violence in the far north of the four facilities of the American -Israeli contractor, GHF said, “Nothing (event) in our positions or near it.”

“We were not close to them (the forces) and there was no threat,” said Abed Salah, a man of his thirties who was among the crowds near the GHF site near Netziam Corridor. “I ran away from death miraculously.”

From May 27 to July 31, 859 people were killed near GHF sites, according to the United Nations report, which was published on Thursday. Hundreds of others have been killed along the paths of food convoys.

GHF says armed contractors only used pepper spray or absolute warning shots to prevent deadly crowding. IsraelThe army, who said it only fired warning footage of the people approaching its forces, although Friday said it was working to make the roads under its control more safe. Israel and GHF said the losses are exaggerated.

The Israeli army did not immediately respond to questions about deaths near the auxiliary sites. Meanwhile, its highest general warned on Saturday that “the fighting will continue without rest” if the hostages are not released. Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir said that the Israeli army will adapt to “the place of Hamas under increased pressure.”

The war began in Gaza when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians. Israel’s retaliatory attack More than 60,000 Palestinians were killedAccording to the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians and operates during the Hamas government. The United Nations and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on victims.

France-Bask Agency

He contributed to this report.