Hostage families tell PM to stop hiding behind IDF spokesperson, take responsibility for hostage deaths

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum demands Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take responsibility for the abandonment of the hostages after six bodies were recovered from the Gaza Strip.

The forum says the hostages’ deaths are the “direct result” of Netanyahu’s “torpedoing” of proposed hostage deals and his demand that the IDF maintain its presence in the Philadelphi Corridor.

“Over the past months, eight hostages were rescued alive in military operations, compared to 105 hostages who were released in the [November] deal,” the forum says.

“Don’t hide behind the IDF spokesperson. Give the public an account of the never-ending abandonment,” the forum adds.