Hostage families respond to reports PM to sack Gallant: ‘This is not the time for musical chairs’

The Hostage and Missing Families Forum responds to reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and replace him with New Hope chair Gideon Sa’ar.

The families note that Sa’ar has said a proposed agreement is tantamount to “surrender” to Hamas and has advocated the use of military pressure to free the hostages, which the forum says has only led to dozens of captives being killed in Gaza.

“Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, this is not the time for musical chairs or to engage in political survival. It is appropriate that this week when our hostages are languishing in Hamas tunnels, all your time and efforts should be devoted to achieving the goals of the war and returning all the captives home — the living for rehabilitation and the fallen and murdered for a proper burial in their country,” the forum says.