Freed hostage’s relative calls for ‘end to Netanyahu’s war,’ hostage deal, at Jerusalem protest

Noam Dan, a relative of freed hostage Ofer Calderon, speaks to protesters outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Jerusalem on April 17, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
Noam Dan, a relative of freed hostage Ofer Calderon, speaks to protesters outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Jerusalem on April 17, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Noam Dan, a relative of freed hostage Ofer Calderon, calls for “an end to Netanyahu’s war” during a protest outside the premier’s private residence in Jerusalem.

The hostages are “destroyed in body and spirit… they are meeting their fate [in Gaza],” she laments.

She demands that the government sign a deal for the return of the remaining hostages in Gaza and a permanent end to the war.

“They call us refusers… but he [Netanyahu] is the only refuser,” she says, charging the premier with refusing to strike a hostage deal, establish a state commission of inquiry into October 7, or take responsibility for the government’s failure to prevent Hamas’s massacre.

As she gives her speech, a sole counterprotester from beyond the police-erected barricades attempts to drown out her speech with loud music.

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