War

 Washington Post: Protests continue in Israel as Netanyahu faces outcry over hostage strategy - After Hamas killed six hostages, Israel erupted in protests over Netanyahu’s policy of using the military rather than negotiations to recover the captives. By Steve Hendrix and Shira Rubin

To the families of the six hostages, he (Netanyahu) said: “I ask for your forgiveness that we weren’t able to bring them back alive. We were close, but we didn’t succeed.”