The leader of the Israeli opposition party, the "State Camp", Benny Gantz, called on the Israeli government to return its prisoners from the Gaza Strip and not to allow settlers into the Strip.

"We must get the kidnapped soldiers out of Gaza and not allow other settlers to enter the Strip," Gantz said in radio statements. "We have blessed settlements in Judea and Samaria (a term Israel uses to refer to the West Bank), so let us preserve them."

Gantz believes that Israel has "nothing to look for in the Gaza Strip other than the prisoners held by the Palestinian factions for 14 months and security," calling on the Israeli government to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza in order to ensure the return of the Israeli prisoners.

He continued, "I say to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Make a plan and start suspending the fighting until this plan is achieved. Netanyahu must have enough courage - if he intends to release the kidnapped soldiers, let him do so, and if he thinks he cannot do so and does not intend to do so, let him say so."

It is noteworthy that Israeli right-wing parties that are partners in the government call for occupying the Gaza Strip, re-settling it, and voluntarily displacing its population.

Prisoner exchange negotiations between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel have faltered due to Netanyahu's insistence on setting conditions that include continued control over the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between Gaza and Egypt, the Rafah crossing, and preventing the return of Palestinian fighters to northern Gaza.

For its part, Hamas insists on a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Strip and a complete cessation of war to accept any agreement.

Israel estimates that there are 101 prisoners in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas announced that dozens of them were killed in random Israeli raids.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American and Western support, has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 149,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.