As the Israeli government works on expanding its military campaign in the occupied Gaza Strip, it is coming under an increase in domestic criticism.
Over the weekend, the country witnessed some of the biggest protests against the ongoing military campaign Gaza, with thousands of Israelis on the streets.
The Gaza strip is silent around the 50 Israeli hostage Baggees organized by the terrorist Hamas Group inside the strip, and his family president Benjamin Netanyahu’s new Gaza Yojana will only threaten the loved ones.
“We know that the decision to occupy more land is risking the life of the hostage,” Gill Dickman, the cousin of the hostage Carmel Gat, who was killed by his prisoners, told DW. “This is exactly what happened to Carmel. She was in Rafah, she [the Israeli army] Decided to capture Rafah. His guard decided to execute him and [five] Another hostage, “Dickman said.
“We know that the only way to bring them back is with a deal [for] All of them added, “Ijietar David’s cousin, Nymema Shueka, who recently seen in a video released by Hamas is the hostage.” So we are screaming: please stop [the fighting]Please save our loved ones. Please do not let them die. ,
Most Israel wants a deal
The number of Israel to agree with the families of hostages is increasing.
Surveys going on by a non-partitive think tank, the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) suggests how the approaches have changed. In mid -October 2023, immediately after Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, Only 17% Israel Thought that their government should talk to the hostages to free, even if it means the fight ends. From the anniversary of the attack53% felt so.
In mid -July this year, a survey conducted by local Israeli media outlet channel 12 revealed that 74% of Israel supported its government to free all hostages to reach agriculture with Hamas and end the fight in Gaza.
No sympathy for Gaza
While most Israel says they want to bring back hostages, save the lives of Israeli soldiers and reject Netanyahu’s government’s conduct, other research suggests that they do not have much sympathy for Palestinians, nor do they prefer the idea of cooperating them.
Conducted for an IDI survey In late July, researchers asked, “What extent is you upset or not bothered by the report of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza?”
Jewish Israelis -No more than three -fourths of 79%, it did not disturb or was not disturbed at all. Jewish Israelis said that they believe the Israeli army is announcing to avoid unnecessary suffering. Arab Israelis took an opposite approach, with 86% too much or somewhat upset with the news of famine and suffering.
In the past, the IDI has asked the Israelites the most important reason for ending the war. Help said it was importing to free the remaining hostages. Only 6% argued that war should end because “great cost in human life” and desire for peace.
It is true that now more people are talking about what is happening in Gaza, an Tel Aviv resident told DW. The resident requested oblivion due to the sensitivity of the subject. “But the general focus is on hostages and soldiers and a reluctance is reluctant to get entangled in an endless.”
Ghazan and Israel are living very different realities, they noted. The Tel Aviv resident said, “Then, Gaza’s 17-year blockade, before the war, there was no real interest in all the devastation for the population as well as one hour from Tel Aviv as well as Israel.”
Is the extremist approach now the mainstream?
In March 2025, Pennsylvania State Universe, a professor of Y, Tamir Sorec, who study how the culture is related to the Israeli-Pilstinian conflict, commissioned a pole, which found that 82% of the Jewish Israelis had imagined to expand completely with Gaza. Given the survey of that March 2025, Sorec concluded that once marginal was marginal, the extremist approaches about Palestinians had now moved to the mainstream of Israel.
“They returned to the 1930s,” Sorec wrote“More public approval has been obtained – more public acceptance – as there are possibilities for peace in the 1990s, existence -related anxiety has increased, and religious zeonists have gained more politics power in the 21st century.”
A March 2025 pole The Pu Research Center in the US found that Israel’s only 21% of Israel feels and a Palestinian kingdom may come into co-existence in peace, part of the so-called two-state solution. Researchers wrote the lowest percentage since 2013.
Recently ground reporting on the approach of ordinary Israelis by international journalists recently UK BBC , new York Times And Germany Sudadatzhe Zitung Supports those findings.
Israeli writer Eater Care is opposing what his government has been doing for months and is happy that he is joining his country’s more time criticism. However, he told DW, “I would have to say that I want people to be fighting on their behalf, fighting for some kind of universal, liberal, human-loving reason. But even if they do not, we basically want the same thing.”
Kerrat tried to explain why Israel is less concerned about the plight of Palestinians. “There are people who are shocked and scared and do not know what Netanyahu is doing, and they are just moving from a spin. [by Netanyahu] To the other, “he argued.” If you see the news in Israel, after the week, they will say the opposite things. Anything is consistent and very little make -make sense. ,
Most Israel gets its information from social media anyway, where Gaza’s images are widely shared. Israelis say more than three -fourths Another IDI survey From April 2025.
