Father of hostage Eitan Horn warns against Gaza City op, says gov’t ‘only cares about political survival’

By Charlie Summers

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23 August 2025, 9:44 pm

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Protesters gather for a demonstration organized by the families of hostages held by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip calling for action to secure the captives' release, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on August 23, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)

At a Tel Aviv protest calling for a hostage-ceasefire deal, the father of Hamas hostage Eitan Horn decries the IDF’s pending operation to take over Gaza City.

“The government doesn’t care about the nation, the hostages… it only cares about its own political survival,” Itzik Horn tells a crowd of thousands gathered under a bridge on Begin Road.

“If, God forbid, the hostages die as a result of this operation, you will not be able to run away from this,” he says, addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “You will be to blame for the death of my Eitan.”

“I don’t want to receive Eitan in a nylon bag,” he continues.

He calls on protesters to take to the streets, saying “only the people, through public pressure, can save them [the hostages].”