The families of Israeli prisoners detained by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to procrastinate and has no intention of completing a prisoner exchange deal.
This came according to what the Hebrew Broadcasting Corporation reported from a statement issued by the families of the Israeli prisoners, during their demonstration in front of the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The residents said, in their statement, that they “fear that Netanyahu is procrastinating and does not seek to conclude an exchange deal with the Hamas movement.”
They saw that “Netanyahu wants negotiations just for the sake of negotiations.”
The families of the prisoners gathered in front of the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry of Defense at a time when the Israeli delegation negotiating the prisoner exchange was preparing to leave for the Qatari capital, Doha, to resume the faltering negotiations, according to the Hebrew Channel 12.
The channel quoted the mother of one of the detainees as believing that Netanyahu does not want to negotiate regarding their children and that his promises are not sincere, despite the passage of about 386 days since their captivity inside the tunnels in Gaza.
She said, “Israel has an image of victory after the assassination of the leaders of the Hamas movement, the disbanding of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the movement’s military arm, and the destruction of the infrastructure in Gaza, and yet Netanyahu does not want to negotiate regarding those detained by the movement.”
Israel estimates that there are 101 prisoners in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas announced that dozens of these prisoners were killed in random Israeli raids.