Brother of hostage: Families should boycott prime minister and government

Danny Elgarat, the brother of hostage Itzik Elgarat, says the families of those hostages being held captive in Gaza should boycott the prime minister and the government.

“I am standing before you, after 159 days, begging the cabinet and the prime minister to meet with me, to see me,” says Elgarat, alongside statements to the press from other family members.

“So I say to you, this is my view, that the Hostages Families Forum should boycott the prime minister and the cabinet,” he continues. “We don’t need to march for five days to Jerusalem, we don’t need to walk from Re’im to Paris Square [in the capital] and we don’t need to protest at the Kirya [military headquarters in Tel Aviv]. They need to stand here, and say, ‘We came, we want to see you.'”

Simona, the mother of hostage Doron Steinbrecher, says, “A month ago, Hamas released a video featuring my little girl. I go to sleep every night with that image.”

She says she has been asking to meet with the war cabinet “for weeks in order to get information and the request has been rejected again and again, leaving us only with the media.”