Hostage Deaths Spur Anger as Netanyahu Holds Firm on Talks
- Prospects for cease-fire progress once again hang in balance
- Histradrut labor federation calls nationwide strike on Monday
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Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages who it said had been killed by their Hamas captors in Gaza, prompting the country’s largest labor union to call a strike to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a deal with the Palestinian militant group for a cease-fire.
The six — including a maimed Israeli-US citizen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents helped spearhead US solidarity campaigns for the hostages’ return — were discovered Saturday by troops searching a tunnel in the southern city of Rafah, the army said.