A number of families of Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip held Benjamin Netanyahu’s government responsible for the non-return of the rest of the detainees, and demanded an emergency initiative from Israel to return their children.
Israeli Channel 13 hosted families of detainees held by the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, including Ramos Aloni – his son-in-law in captivity – who said, “We, the families of the kidnapped, have not seen that Israel has presented a proposal to liberate them, and we demand that it do so, but this has not happened yet.” “.
Aloni expressed his fear that not presenting an Israeli initiative and placing the issue of detainees at the top of the priorities “serves the people who want to continue the war,” stressing that half of the Israeli Cabinet is among these people.
For his part, Alon Nimrodi – whose soldier son is being held by the resistance in Gaza – sent through Israeli Channel 11 what he described as a cry to stop the war that Israel is waging against Gaza immediately, and to return all the detainees, and demanded “a clear and serious proposal… and this proposal must come from Israel,” and not waiting for crumbs from the proposals of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
However, Zvika Mor – whose two sons are detained – opposed Nimrodi’s proposal, saying, “All this tendency for us to put forward the proposal and to beg for them to come and talk to us distances us from the detainees and raises the price of the deal.”
On the other hand, Channel 13 quoted an analyst – whose name was not mentioned – calling for not listening to the families of detainees, and saying that what he described as the enemy must be confronted and eliminated.
The discussion took place on Israeli Channel 12 about the differences between the left and the right regarding the war and the issue of detainees. One of the interviewees said that the right does not want to listen to the families of the detainees and wants the war to continue, while the left wants to listen to the families.
Mickey Rosenthal, a former member of the Knesset, spoke about internal disputes in Israel, saying, “Even before this war, there was a party that believed that human life was less important than an area of land, and I will not name this party.” “I don’t know if this can be said about the entire right,” he added.