Speaking at the 100-day rally in Tel Aviv, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says that “I get asked all the time if Israel is doing enough to bring the hostages home and I say no, because they’re not home.”
“I said to the prime minister that the opposition will give you our back,” he says. “We don’t have good choices, the only choice is to bring them home.”
The events of October 7 are the failure of the government and IDF, says Lapid, which abandoned those in the Gaza border communities on that day.
“It’s their failure and it’s their job to bring them home, to make the decisions that are hard to make. The Israeli contract is broken into pieces and can only be put back together by returning them to their homes,” he adds. “Our reliance on one another is what makes us different.”
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