I had eye surgery, I understand your suffering: Likud MK tells hostages’ families

Likud MK Keti Shitrit sparks widespread outrage on social media when she tells the families of those taken hostage in Gaza that she understands their suffering because she just had eye surgery.

“One morning I woke up and could not see out of my one eye and I was taken for surgery,” Shitrit tells the families at a meeting of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality.

“Recovery was long. I can’t get dressed or shower or do other things I did before,” she says. “Why am I telling you this? Because I can so clearly understand how your lives were so suddenly turned upside down.”

Hamas terrorists stormed across the border on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and taking 240 hostages amid acts of horrific brutality.

It is believed that 132 of the hostages remain in Gaza, not all of them alive.

Shitrit is widely slammed on social media for her tone-deaf comments, with some suggesting the public hold vigils for her suffering.