Netanyahu insults hostage families as fascists

Tumult in front of his house

Netanyahu insults hostage families as fascists

Israel rummages the fate of the Hamas Geiseln. Tens of thousands now called for an agreement on their release – and moved to the head of the government.

Hitzy scenes in front of the private house of the Israeli Prime Minister: After a large demonstration in front of the parliament in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, members of the Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip moved to Benjamin Netanyahu’s place of residence and asked for an agreement to release all people withdrawn from Hamas.

According to Israeli media, tens of thousands took part in the demonstration, to which the mothers of two soldiers captured in the Gaza Strip had called. Hundreds of demonstrators then moved further close to Netanyahus Privatresidenz. There had previously lit trash cans and tires there during the day and accidentally burned down the car of a reservist of the Israeli army.

Netanyahu then accused the demonstrators of exceeding a red line by blocking streets and “threatening death every day”, as the Prime Minister wrote in a statement. “You talk and act like fascists,” says Netanyahu. He accused the police not to ensure order and thus enable an escalation.

Anat Angrest, the mother of the soldiers Matan, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023 in the Gaza Strip, said to Netanyahu’s statement that she wanted to remind him “that our loved ones are not protected by an army of bodyguards from the state treasury. Instead, they are surrounded by an army of terrorists, and they are not saved.”

Angest accused the government of betraying their soldiers. “This week we buried the 900th soldier. Now it continues with reservists who are called for their third and fourth use to fight in Gaza above my son’s head.”

Vicky Cohen, the mother of soldiers Nimrod Cohen kidnapped on October 7, 2023 in the coastal stripes, accused the government to let the hostages and their relatives down. “It is a crime that she to do to us,” she said. The situation of the hostages and their families is unbearable. At the evening rally, she asked Netanyahu that he should not say that he was on the side of the hostages and their families. “If they were really, if it meant something, my son would be at home.”

Opponents of the planned conquest of the city of Gaza and the convening of tens of thousands of reservists had protested in Jerusalem since morning and blocked streets, among other things.