Israel's Netanyahu threatens to 'find out and take revenge' on Hamas leaders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to intensify the fight against Hamas. His comments came after the Israeli military recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza. It is believed that when Israeli forces approached the hostages in Gaza, all six were shot dead by Hamas militants.

"Those who kill the hostages do not want a deal (for a cease-fire in Gaza)," Netanyahu said in a statement. "

"According to our initial information, shortly before we reached them, Hamas terrorists brutally killed them," a military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hegari, told reporters. They were found inside a tunnel in the city of Rafah.

By evening, grieving and angry Israelis took to the streets to chant "Now!" “Now!” started chanting. They are demanding that Netanyahu sign a cease-fire deal with Hamas to bring back the remaining hostages and end the nearly 11-month-old war in Gaza.

Israel's largest labor union called a general strike on Monday to put economic pressure on the Histadrut government. 

Israeli police killed in West Bank

Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the deaths of three Israeli policemen in a shootout in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday. Hamas did not claim responsibility for the incident, but called the attack "a heroic operation by the resistance forces".

"We are fighting a brutal enemy on all fronts, who wants to kill us all," Netanyahu said. The fact that Hamas can carry out massacres like October 7 tells us that we must do whatever it takes to ensure that they do not do it again in the future.

Israeli counter-attacks have killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, local health authorities said. Most of Gaza's 23 million residents have been repeatedly displaced and the besieged land is now in the grip of a humanitarian disaster.

The US designates Hamas as a terrorist group.