Bat-Galim Shaar: Army has not updated us since bodies were found

Bat-Galim Shaar, the mother of the late Gil-ad Shaar, tells Channel 2 that since the bodies were found they’ve received no updates on the investigation and the ongoing hunt for the killers from the IDF and the Shin Bet.

The information that it was a civilian search team that found the teenagers reached her via media reports, she says.

“I think that’s it [only] right that after they told us about finding the bodies, they would come update us personally and directly on the findings, and the way the bodies were discovered, their condition, and the clues yielded from the site that could perhaps teach us more about what happened to the boys in the last minutes of their lives,” she says.

Ezra Shaar, Gil-ad’s grandfather, says he initially heard the awful news on Al-Jazeera.

“I was at afternoon prayers in the synagogue when my friend sent me a message telling me something about finding the boys on Al-Jazeera. Immediately after the prayers, when I got home, I told my wife to turn on the [Israeli] TV and radio to see if it was correct. They didn’t say anything, so I didn’t tell her what I heard — I didn’t want to worry her. I said, ‘Something is happening, but wait a bit.'”