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Moving on now, the Israeli Prime Minister is upping the pressure on Hamas
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even after it agreed to a ceasefire proposal from mediators in Egypt and Qatar
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Beniamin Netanyahu said the militant group's leaders could be permitted to leave the Gaza Strip
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if and only if they agree to lay down their arms. An offer that Hamas had previously described as a red line
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even if it has expressed some willingness to hand over the territory's administration
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Meanwhile, Israeli strikes on a house and tent, sheltering the displaced, killed eight people, including five children on Sunday
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Here's the Israeli Prime Minister. The military pressure is working. It is working because it's done simultaneously
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On the one hand, it's crushing the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas
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And on the other hand, it creates the conditions for release of our hostages. That's exactly what we are doing
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Last night, the security cabinet decided on increasing the pressure, which was already increased in order to expand the crushing of Hamas
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and the creation of the best condition for the release of our hostages. For more on the latest, then we'll cross now to our Israel correspondent Noga Tarnapolski
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Good afternoon, Noga. So there were more anti-war protests in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem yesterday
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But in the last hour or so, as we saw, Netanyahu has said that his cabinet voted to escalate military pressure on Hamas
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So what's going on? That's a really good question. Because while Netanyahu says that expanded military pressures creating the condition
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for the release of hostages. In the real world, no Israeli hostages have been released
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for the last five Saturdays. In other words, since Israel decided to walk away
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from the structure of the original ceasefire agreement that had been come to both by the Biden
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and the Trump administrations together during that last period just before Donald Trump inauguration So since then Prime Minister Netanyahu has decapitated the hostage negotiating team He installed his own crony Ron Dermar at the head of the team instead of the
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heads of the Mossad and the Shimbet who were running before. And not one hostage has been released
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while Israel has gone back to war, or at least has ended the ceasefire. So in Israel, there's a feeling
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I would say of real difficulty, of real detachment. You saw that among the thousands on the streets yesterday
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that even as demands for an end to the war grow, that the government is simply going time and time again
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in the opposite direction, but there are no results yet to show for it
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So, Noga, the Israeli cabinet also discussed increasing targets within Lebanon separately
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So is the ceasefire there on the verge of collapse as well
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It doesn't seem to be yet on the verge of collapse, but it's certainly not a stable situation yet
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And the Israeli military have expanded their operations also in Lebanon. The ceasefire that that came into place last November, and that has more or less held
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But there have been occasional missiles lobbed into Israel. It doesn't appear to be from Hezbollah
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It appears from Palestinian groups still operating in southern Lebanon. And nonetheless, the Israeli government and the Israeli military see this as an arena in which they can also expand operations
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So for the Israeli citizens, the feeling is of a never-ending war and no results in the vista
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For the Palestinians in Gaza, this return to war has been absolutely completely devastating
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There's almost no aid getting in, and there are almost no reports of what is happening inside Gaza getting out
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Noga Tarnapolsky, our correspondent in Israel, thank you very much for that update
