The brother of a soldier who was killed in Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip urges Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a firm decision on the continuation of the 26-day campaign, criticizing him for what he called the lack of firm resolve that was costing the lives of dozens of soldiers.
Omer Gotlib, the brother of St.-Sgt. Matan Gotlib, who was killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, says the prime minister’s inability to decide whether he wanted the conflict in the Gaza Strip to be resolved by diplomacy or force was causing losses among the IDF soldiers who were deployed to the coastal enclave in recent weeks.
Sgt. Matan Gotlib (photo credit: Facebook)
Gotlib, who described himself as a left-wing Meretz voter who had never supported Netanyahu’s Likud party implored the prime minister in a message he wrote on his official Facebook page, picked up by Walla News, to “stop being a politician” and either leave Gaza or destroy it.
“I ask you to take the children out of Gaza and turn to diplomacy — or just stop being afraid of the world and turn Gaza into rubble,” he writes.
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