Family of hostages urge PM to bring all hostages home, criticize Netanyahu for staying in Washington

Amos Horn, whose brothers are being held hostage, appeals to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take action to ensure phases two and three of the hostage-ceasefire deal come to fruition in light of the poor condition of the three hostages released today.

“I hope your plans are to bring all the teams to Doha to sign the next phases in the deal, and to return of our abducted brothers and sisters who are in hellish and Holocaust-like conditions,” Amos Horn says, according to the Ynet news site.

Horn calls for the public to join the protests calling for the release of the hostages: “They cannot be left there any longer.”

Iair Horn is among the 33 hostages to be released in the deal’s first phase, while Eitan Horn is to remain in Gaza for now under the terms of the agreement.

Yehuda Cohen, whose son Nimrod is held hostage in Gaza, and also not expected to be released in the current round, blasts the premier for staying in Washington.

“It is worth mentioning that at the same time that Israeli citizens are being released [looking] like Holocaust survivors from Hamas captivity, Netanyahu is spending time in a luxury hotel suite in Washington, at the expense of the Israeli taxpayer, and the expense of the suffering of the hostages,” he says, according to Ynet.