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Eisenkot says government ‘not worthy’ of his son and others killed in Gaza war
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Gadi Eisenkot, a former IDF chief of staff, says the government “is not worthy” of his son Gal, who was killed in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
Eisenkot adds in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster that the government is also unworthy of other soldiers and hostages who have lost their lives in the nearly two-year war.
His son was one of the soldiers who “paid with his life to bring back the fallen,” Eisenkot says in the interview. “And this government is a government that is running away from its responsibility and is not worthy of Gal… and is not worthy of many other combat soldiers and unfortunately also hostages who lost their lives because of cowardice, because of political indecision, because of the political and ideological considerations of people who want to resettle the Gaza Strip.”
Eisenkot’s son was killed while serving in the IDF in Gaza in December 2023, while Eisenkot was a member of a since-dissolved emergency war cabinet formed in the wake of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre and launch of the Gaza war.
Eisenkot has since become an outspoken critic of the government’s approach to the war.
In the interview, he says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition doesn’t “understand their responsibility” and does not heed public opinion, which, surveys show, supports a deal to end the war and bring the hostages back.
The Times of Israel Community.