Families of captives call on Israeli gov’t to reach a ceasefire deal
A major nationwide strike is now underway across Israel.
The largest trade union says it wants to pressure the government of Benjamin Netanyahu into signing a Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal with Hamas.
The action was called after the bodies of six Israeli captives were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza on Saturday.
Hamas has blamed Israeli air strikes for the deaths of those six captives whose bodies were recovered on Saturday.
Israel says they were found with bullet wounds.
Dozens of people attended a vigil for one of the six, Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich is trying to halt the general strike.
He’s asked the attorney general to impose a ban – saying the industrial action will have significant economic consequences.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid has called for a complete government shutdown.
Udi Goren, a member of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, spoke to Al Jazeera from the Israeli Knesset in West Jerusalem, where the group has been speaking to parliament members amid an ongoing general strike calling on Netanyahu to reach a deal with Hamas for the release of the remaining captives.
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