Ex-hostage’s father says he’d planned at one point to torch hundreds of cars, ‘burn the country’

10 August 2025, 12:26 am

2 Edit

Eli Albag, the father of released hostage Liri Albag, speaks at a press conference at the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva on January 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Eli Albag, father of released captive Liri Albag, says that while his daughter was in captivity, he planned at one point to set hundreds of car on fire as part of protests calling for a hostage deal.

“I had a plan to burn the country — torch 200 or 300 cars. I’m not joking,” Albag tells Channel 12 news in an interview. “I had no other option. What did I think? That I’d continue being at Hostages Square? Keep demonstrating once a week?”

Asked what he thinks relatives of those still held in Gaza by terrorists should do, Albag says: “I can’t judge them. My girl came back so I’m shutting my mouth. There are 50 more hostages in Gaza. I understand what these families are going through, my heart is with them.”