Yehuda Cohen, father of Nimrod Cohen, a soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, speaks at a hostage families rally outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 7, 2024. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
The father of hostage Nimrod Cohen says he will follow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his upcoming trip to the United States, and demonstrate against him in Washington, DC.
“What did Netanyahu say? ‘There will be nothing because there is nothing,'” Yehuda Cohen says, referencing the prime minister’s 2017 response to a corruption investigation into him.
“They talk, but nothing happens. The Israeli government gives prisoners, so why should they [Hamas] release hostages?” Cohen tells the Ynet news site.
“Netanyahu will cushion himself with sympathy in the US, and we cannot stand by. Without Netanyahu disappearing from the political map, there will be no progress in the [hostage] deal,” Cohen says.
Nimrod Cohen was taken captive by Hamas terrorists to Gaza on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
On Monday, Israel released the director of Shifa Hospital from jail, reportedly along with some 55 other Palestinian detainees, and sent him back to the Gaza Strip.
Amid political furor over Muhammad Abu Salmiya’s release, ministers and senior security officials traded blame and sought to avoid responsibility.
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