Hostage’s dad voices support for partial deal: ‘Anyone who can be saved must be saved’

23 August 2025, 4:51 pm

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Kobi Ohel, father of Hamas hostage Alon Ohel, at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on February 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The father of hostage Alon Ohel expresses support for a ceasefire deal that would not return all those held by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza at once, saying that “anyone who can be saved must be saved.”

Speaking at a cultural event in the south, Kobi Ohel says the hostages who are still alive “don’t have time and therefore we must do everything possible to reach a deal like this that frees everyone, even if it’s in stages.”

Ohel adds that he backs the current 60-day truce proposal agreed to by Hamas that would see the release of 10 living hostages.