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Monday, September 16, 2024
Hostage families call on IDF chief to allow hostage photos to be displayed on bases
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The Hostages and Missing Families Forum appeals to IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi to ensure that photos of captives held in Gaza are posted at every base, after claiming to discover that such images and expressions of solidarity with them are forbidden.
In addition to an absence of photos on bases, the forum says that “the IDF forbids its soldiers, officers, and commanders to wear the [yellow] hostage ribbon on the lapel of the uniform, like other symbols they carry,” the families say.
The forum says that the IDF must remember its responsibility in failing to protect citizens on October 7, when Hamas-led terrorists massacred and abducted those under its protection, adding, “It is reasonable that every soldier and commander is presented with the face and picture of all 101 hostages.”
The Times of Israel Community.