Hostage families to PM: Announce publicly you’ve given up on hostages for the sake of IDF presence on Philadelphi Corridor

The Hostage and Missing Families Forum, responding to leaked quotes from last night’s cabinet meeting, demands that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly declare that he has given up on the lives of hostages for the sake of a continued IDF presence on the Philadelphi Corridor.

“The quotes from the cabinet meeting should prevent sleep for every Israeli citizen,” the forum says. “Every citizen knows that if they were to be kidnapped from their bed in their pajamas on a Saturday morning, their prime minister would do everything to keep his seat, even at the cost of leaving them to die in the Hamas tunnels in Gaza.”

The forum says it would have been better for the country if other ministers responded like Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to the vote called by Netanyahu to back his stance that the IDF remain deployed on the corridor that runs the length of the Gaza-Egypt border. Gallant, who cast the only vote against Netanyahu’s stance, accused the cabinet of condemning the hostages to death to maintain the IDF’s presence on the Philadelphi Corridor, according to quotes reported by Channel 12.

“We demand the prime minister hold a press conference in which he announces he has decided to give up on the lives of hostages and the return of the fallen and murdered for appropriate burial, in exchange for a corridor that all the defense officials have determined it is possible to leave from for a certain period,” the forum says.