Einav Zangauker warns PM: If Matan comes back in a body bag I will have you charged with murder

30 August 2025, 6:29 pm

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Einav Zangauker, the mother of hostage Matan Zangauker attends a protest outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, calling for a deal with the Hamas terror group to secure the release of the captives, August 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Einav Zangauker, mother of Hamas hostage Matan Zangauker, tells Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu she holds him personally responsible if her son is killed in Gaza and will try to have him charged with murder.

Speaking at outside IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv ahead of a rally for the hostages, Zangauker reacts to quotes from an unnamed senior security official who told Hebrew media that multiple living hostages could have returned last week and been home safe by now had Israel accepted the deal on the table that it had agreed to in the past.

“We keep having to deal with lying spin from Netanyahu,” she says.

“If Matan comes back in a body bag, it won’t only be Matan and me who pay the price,” she says in remarks addressed to Netanyahu. “I will personally ensure that you face charges of premeditated murder.”