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Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Father of abducted soldier to PM: You keep saying what you won’t accept. What are you prepared to say ‘yes’ to?
Eli Albag, whose daughter Liri is one of the five soldiers in the video released today showing their abduction on October 7, demands that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provide the public with answers.
For 229 days, Netanyahu has said what he is not willing to accept in exchange for a hostage deal. “Tell us what you are willing to accept!” Albag shouts in an interview with Channel 12.
Albag says there’s no other way to return the hostages other than for Israel to agree to end the war. He laments that the government refuses to do so and is instead continuing to send soldiers to places in Gaza that the IDF previously cleared of Hamas fighters only for them to lose their lives in vain.