4/9/2024–|Last update: 4/9/202410:03 PM (Makkah Time)
The families of the Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip addressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying, “Stop creating the illusion of support and seeking to recover the hostages while you are doing everything to thwart the deal.”
A body representing the families of these prisoners today asked Netanyahu to stop wearing the badge in solidarity with their relatives, while he is obstructing any deal to return them.
In conferences and media interviews, Netanyahu and a number of his government ministers appear wearing a small yellow pin on their lapels, as a symbol of solidarity with the Israeli prisoners in Gaza.
According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the Abductees’ Families Committee said in a statement, “We demand that Netanyahu stop wearing the abductees’ pin,” considering that whoever wears it “is the one who wants to express unconditional support for the return of the abductees and sympathy with their families.”
Addressing Netanyahu, she added, “Stop making a false show of support and seeking the return of the kidnapped, while in reality you are doing everything in your power to undermine the deal to return them.”
Since last Sunday, anger and protests have escalated in Israel, especially among the families of prisoners, following the announcement The occupation army returned 6 bodies of prisoners from a tunnel in the city of Rafah, south of Gaza.
Israeli media reported that the names of at least three of them were included in a deal that was being prepared two months ago, before Netanyahu added new conditions that hindered its implementation.
Netanyahu insists on remaining in the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between Gaza and Egypt in any deal with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which the movement and Cairo reject.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant had previously confirmed that withdrawing from the Philadelphi corridor during the first phase of the deal would not pose a security problem for Israel, but Netanyahu announced last Monday that “achieving the war’s goals goes through the Philadelphi corridor.”