Israel strikes more than 100 targets in Gaza — thousands descend on Tel Aviv to demand release of hostages

Israel struck more than 100 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight — including military structures, underground tunnels and Hamas hideouts — while thousands took to the streets to demand the release of hostages and an end to the war.

After negotiations on a cease-fire reached an impasse in Doha this week, demonstrators descended on Tel Aviv Saturday, rallying outside the Defense Ministry headquarters to call for the release of the remaining 58 hostages held captive by the terror group.

Amid the increasing Israeli offensive in the Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused French, British and Canadian leaders of wanting to support the terror group, after they called on the prime minister to end the onslaught in the region and threatened to take “concrete action.”

“They’re emboldening Hamas to continue fighting forever,” Netanyahu said in televised remarks Thursday night. “You’re on the wrong side of history.”

He said Israel will continue to strike Gaza until Hamas is completely disarmed.

Meanwhile, one of the freed Israeli hostages, Agam Berger, met French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Paris Saturday — amid heightened diplomatic tensions between the countries.

She told the top French official “diplomatic solutions” to ending Israel’s war with Hamas will not work.

“They don’t want “together” — all these diplomatic solutions, I don’t know how to call them, it’s not going to work because it’s us or them,” Berger said, according to the Times of Israel.

“If it were possible not to choose war, we wouldn’t choose it. But the moment there is a war for the existence of our land — that’s what we’re going to do.”

Barrot said the hostages were held in captivity in “inhumane conditions.”

“All the hostages must be freed. Now. Hamas must be disarmed and excluded from Gaza’s political future,” Barrot wrote in a French-language post on X after the meeting.

Hamas abducted 251 Israelis during the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. Only 20 of the remaining 58 hostages still being held are believed to be alive.

The terror group has said it will only release those in captivity in exchange for the release of Palestinians taken as prisoners, a lasting cease-fire and an Israeli withdrawal from the territory — terms Netanyahu has rejected.

With wires