Hostage’s mom calls on public to join protests: Netanyahu ‘decided to sacrifice them and us’

Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan is held hostage in Gaza, calls on the public to go onto the streets tomorrow night and call for a deal, charging that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has decided to sacrifice them and us.”

“I would like to appeal to all the people of Israel, to every mother and father who is watching us right now. I am so close to hugging Matan in my arms,” Einav says in a direct appeal to the public while appearing on Channel 12.

“There is a deal on the table, and our prime minister has decided to sacrifice them and us,” she charges.

“The prime minister prefers to abandon the babies, the elderly, the citizens, the soldiers in order to preserve his political capital, to keep himself as prime minister,” she says.

“I invite you to join me at the Begin Gate [entrance to the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv] on Saturday night. Come, help me fight for the return of the hostages, for the residents in the north, for the security of the state and for the people of Israel,” she says.

US President Joe Biden announced last week what he described as an Israeli proposal for a hostage-ceasefire deal. Hamas has not yet formally responded to the proposal, but officials in the terror group have reiterated their insistence that any agreement must guarantee an end to the war, a demand Israel has repeatedly ruled out.