Live Update From the Liveblog of
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Lapid: Netanyahu focused on his survival as ‘our sons and daughters are dying in captivity’
After the military says it has found bodies in Gaza, possibly of hostages, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid issues a scathing statement accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of focusing on insignificant issues as “our sons and daughters are being abandoned and dying in captivity.”
“Not the Philadelphi Corridor nor the polio vaccines [in Gaza] interest him — just the coalition and preserving [the partnership with Bezalel] Smotrich and [Itamar] Ben Gvir,” he charges. “In the process, he is crushing the families and the nation of Israel.”