Hostage mother calls for general strike after plan to expand Gaza offensive

9 August 2025, 11:32 am

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Anat Angrest, holding a photo of her son Matan, who is held hostage in Gaza, shouts at MK Simcha Rothman in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anat Angrest, whose son Matan Angrest is held hostage in Gaza, calls for a general strike in Israel after the government approves a plan to fully conquer Gaza City, a move widely seen as endangering the remaining hostages.

“Dear mothers, friends, heads of the economy, the struggle is not only ours – the families of the hostages,” she writes in a post on X.

“Will you be with me when I call for everything to come to a stop, to strike?” she asks. “It was decided to expand the war and conquer, even at the cost of Matan’s life.”

“And silence kills..,” she writes.