From the Liveblog of
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Hostage families call for general strike to pressure government to save hostages
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, in an appeal to “the heads of the economy, the Histadrut [labor union] and local government,” calls for them to “shut down the economy” after IDF forces operating in the Gaza Strip discovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages killed by Hamas.
“The national leadership abandoned the abductees and this is the time for the social, economic, and local leadership to stand up for the sake of the families of the abductees, the sake of the public, and the sake of the value of solidarity and mutual responsibility,” the forum states, calling on them to “shut down the economy tomorrow.”
“The headquarters of the families of the hostages calls on the heads of the economy, the Histadrut, and local government to shut down the economy and the state tomorrow to put pressure on the cabinet and the prime minister to stop the abandonment, to save the living hostages” and recover the bodies of the dead, the group tweets.
