Israeli Channel 12 published leaked recordings of what it said was a discussion between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the families of Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip during the last meeting with them.
The leaks contained a talk by one of the women released in one of the prisoner exchange operations with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and she said that there had been attacks by Air Force planes, and that Israel had abandoned them.
Last Wednesday, Ynet, one of the most famous news sites in Israel, published leaked audio recordings of released Israeli prisoners and some of their families meeting with Netanyahu after their release, and stated that the detainees’ families expressed their indignation and anger to Netanyahu as a result of the air strikes on Gaza. In light of the Palestinian factions holding Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip.
The website quoted one of the recently released prisoners, whose name was not mentioned, saying, “The prisoners will not survive the Israeli army’s bombing.” He added, “Every day in captivity was very difficult. We were in the tunnels and we were afraid that Israel, not Hamas, would kill us.”
An unnamed Israeli woman was also quoted as saying, “We felt like no one was doing anything for us. The truth is, I was in a bombed-out bunker and we became wounded refugees.”
She continued: “My husband was separated from me 3 days before my return to Israel and was taken to the tunnels. And you are talking about flooding the tunnels with sea water? You are bombing the tunnel roads exactly where they (the Israeli prisoners) are located.”
She was referring to American media reports that spoke of an Israeli plan to flood Gaza’s tunnels with seawater.
In the same context, another released prisoner reported that an Israeli helicopter opened fire on Israeli civilians.
This statement came in a leaked audio recording reported on the American CNN website about Netanyahu’s meeting with released prisoners, which it published on Wednesday under the title “Leaked audio recording of a heated meeting reveals the hostages’ anger at Netanyahu.”
In the fourth paragraph of the American website’s news, the following sentence was mentioned: “I heard a woman who was released with her children without her husband saying: Our feeling there was that no one did anything for us. In fact, the place where we were hiding was bombed, and we had to be smuggled out.” We were injured, and in addition, helicopters (on October 7) opened fire on us on the road to Gaza.”
The Israeli “Walla” news website also quoted, on Wednesday, the wife of a prisoner who was recently released as saying to members of the Military Ministerial Council in the charged meeting held at the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening: “They (the prisoners) are in the tunnels, and you are talking about flooding them with water.” the sea”.
In the same context, the Israeli media published a similar discussion between the families of Israeli detainees and Defense Minister Yoav Galant in front of his house.