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Friday, October 17, 2025
Right-wing Tzav 9 group says it will resume blocking aid to Gaza until all bodies of hostages returned
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Right-wing activist group Tzav 9 announces that it will once again start blocking aid trucks from entering the war-torn Gaza Strip due to what it says are Hamas “violations” of the ceasefire and hostage release deal.
Israel has accused Hamas of violating the agreement by failing to hand over the bodies of the last 19 hostages in a timely manner. The terror group insists that it has returned all those it could access, however, and that efforts are ongoing to locate the rest.
“As long as there is no agreement, continuing to transfer aid to the terror group is forbidden,” declares Tzav 9 in an announcement. “The aid allows it to rehabilitate without any compensation and without the return of the dead. No aid will be transferred until the last of the dead is returned.”
Tzav 9 was formed by a group of right-wing activists who believed that Israel should block all aid from entering Gaza in the months following the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault. For several months, the movement made a name for itself by blocking routes leading to Gaza, staging protests near the border crossings, and in some instances, looting and trashing the aid packages aboard the aid trucks.
Until Friday’s announcement, the group appeared to have become largely inactive.
The Times of Israel Community.