Hostage’s dad attacked with eggs, berated as ‘cancer’ as he protests outside Likud event

Eggs are thrown and insults are hurled toward the father of a Gaza hostage as he demonstrates outside a festive event in Netanya hosted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and attended by ministers and MKs.

As Eli Albag, father of Liri who has been held by terrorists in the Strip for almost a year, continues his campaign pressuring the government to release his daughter, unknown assailants throw the eggs, hitting Albag and a nearby police officer.

Hebrew media reports add that apparent Likud activists also berated Albag and other activists on behalf of the hostages, who have been urging the government to sign a hostage deal with Hamas.

“[Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar is funding you,” one reportedly says.

“You are cancer in the country,” another is said to shout.

Albag then tells reporters that he regularly gets threatening messages, is cursed and even beaten due to his struggle to reunite with his daughter.

“It’s one thing to throw at me, I’m used to it… I have very thick skin. But why throw eggs at the police? That disturbed me more,” Albag tells the Kan public broadcaster, before right-wing counterprotesters start berating him again on live television and disrupting the broadcast.