Father of hostage Eitan Horn slams ‘deranged’ government, accuses them of gambling with lives of captives

The father of Hamas hostage Eitan Horn excoriates the government as “deranged” and condemns their plans to recapture the Gaza Strip, saying they were gambling with the lives of his son and of the other hostages.

“While my son is fighting for his life in captivity and an entire country is fighting to get him out of there, the government intends to occupy the Strip and gamble on his life and the lives of the living hostages, to make the dead disappear forever and also gamble on our heroic soldiers,” Itzik Horn says in a statement outside IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv ahead of a mass rally for the hostages.

“Sitting in the government and cabinet are a bunch of deranged people that every citizen of Israel needs to ask whether these people are worthy of making decisions about their fate,” Horn says. “They don’t want them back, and they don’t deserve to lead us.”