Lapid: Netanyahu should make clear if he thinks hostages can’t be returned with single deal

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid hits back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman, who said earlier this evening that the idea of all hostages held in Gaza returning in a single deal is a “spin.”

Lapid writes on X that the comments show that “the Israeli government has given up on attempting to return the hostages.”

“Netanyahu should make clear if his spokesman speaks from his heart or officially,” Lapid writes. “If this is the official position of the prime minister, he should show up and say this, and if not, he should apologize on behalf of his spokesman.”

“My heart is with the families, whose worlds are rocked by every sentence like this. And with Elkana [Bohbot’s] family, whose sign of life emphasizes more than anything else that a hostage deal must be reached immediately,” he writes, referencing a video published by Hamas of the hostage this evening.