The parents of fallen soldiers heckle Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a memorial service at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to mark the second anniversary of the 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza.
“We do not believe you,” shouts Yoram Tal, whose 22-year-old son Yoram was killed in the fighting. “My son fell for democracy, not for this regime.”
“As a bereaved brother, I understand your pain,” Netanyahu says in response. The prime minister’s brother, Yoni Netanyahu, died in the raid on Entebbe in 1976.
Tal then storms out of the ceremony, Ynet reports.
Yoram Tal, whose soldier son Omri was killed in the 2014 Gaza war, heckles Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony marking two years since the conflict at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 26, 2015. (Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
Netanyahu is later heckled by another bereaved father, who demands that the government hold an inquiry into how the 50-day conflict — known in Israel as Operation Protective Edge — was conducted.
“The families are asking the prime minister, like prime ministers before him… to set up a commission of inquiry into the events of Protective Edge,” says Moti Matt, who lose his 19-year-old son Lee in the conflict.
Lee’s mother, Smadar, also calls for an inquiry, in the form of “an external, state commission, headed by a judge, which will review all the events of Protective Edge.”
She also slams Netanyahu for his reluctance to hold an inquiry.
“This is the entire demand, but the prime minister comes along and paints everything rose-colored and everything will be fine,” she tells Netanyahu. “So what do you care whether there is a committee?”
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