Father of hostage Eitan Mor warns against partial deal, says those left behind will be in ‘the greatest danger’

Zvika Mor, the father of hostage Eitan Mor and co-founder of the right-wing hostage advocacy group Tikva Forum, tells the Kan public broadcaster that if Israel moves forward with another partial hostage release deal, the few that are left behind will be “in the greatest danger.”

The framework for the hostage release and ceasefire deal currently being negotiated stipulates that Hamas will release 10 living hostages and return the bodies of 18 slain hostages during a 60-day truce. Unless something changes, this will leave 22 hostages behind in Gaza, 10 of whom are believed to be alive.

“Everyone understands that the hostages who remain until the end are in the greatest danger,” Mor says in an interview on Kan radio. “What will happen to the final group?”

He says that the price Israel will be required to pay for the final 22 hostages “will be the highest price” of all the deals made thus far.

As has been the case with other hostage families, Mor says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him that Hamas will be the ones who determine which hostages will be released, and that Israel will have no control over the list.

Netanyahu told hostage families as much during a meeting with them in Washington yesterday, a source present in the conversation had told the Times of Israel.

“The prime minister told me in a one-on-one conversation that Israel has no influence over the list,” says Mor. “He may have told me that so that we stop getting on his nerves, but there is also a logic to Hamas releasing whomever it wants, to leave us disoriented and in a fog.”