Knesset committee meeting suspended after being disrupted by hostage families

Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter

A session of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is briefly suspended after family members of hostages being held captive in Gaza threaten to sabotage the hearing.

They were protesting the recently signed hostage-prisoner release deal since their loved ones were not included in the first stage of the agreement.

The aunt of Gali and Ziv Berman, who were abducted from Kfar Aza, plays a recording of Gali’s last phone call with his mother during Hamas’s October 7 invasion, when he told her he was going to help Emily Damari who was also living in the “young generation” neighborhood of the kibbutz.

Damari was one of three women released on Sunday in the ceasefire agreement.

“Emily the hero came back, but Gali and Ziv the heroes are still there. I want this picture [of a mother hugging her released hostage daughter] too; my sister deserves this too,” she says.

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