Hostages’ son appears to accuse some in right-wing forums of willingness to ‘sacrifice their sons to conquer land in Gaza’

Omri Lifshitz, son of captivity survivor Yocheved Lifshitz and slain hostage Oded Lifshitz, appears to accuse some right-wing bereaved and hostage families of being “willing to sacrifice their sons to conquer Gaza’s land.”

Speaking to hundreds of anti-government protesters on Tel Aviv’s Begin Street, he says such a willingness exists in parts of “the government and the extremist forums” — apparently a reference to the Gvura Forum of families of forum who were killed fighting in Gaza, and the Tikva Forum of hostage families who support the release of their loved ones through military pressure.

“Those who sanctify land will never measure up to those who sanctify life,” he says.

He expresses fear that Israel’s renewed Gaza will kill the remaining living hostages and quash any hope of returning the dead ones’ bodies.

“It’s clear to everyone that withdrawing from Gaza and ending the horrible war would have brought back the bodies many months ago,” he says, calling for “retreat from Gaza forever.”

Yotam Cohen, brother of captive soldier Nimrod Cohen says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies will see “no quarter for these deeds.”

“We will remember forever. We’ll remind the next generations that at a time of war a government of horrors, haters of Israel, worked to sacrifice citizens and soldiers.”

Referring to Netanyahu’s spokesman Omer Dostri, who said this evening that Israel can’t bring back all the hostages because that would require an end to the war, Cohen says he sees the statement as a “direct admission of the incompetence of the government and its leader.”

“Netanyahu is incompetent and incapable of being the prime minister of Israel,” he says.