Likud MK orders hostage relative kicked out of Knesset meeting because she was ‘repeating herself’

Likud MK David Bitan orders a relative of a dead hostage held in Gaza kicked out of a Knesset Economics Committee after she refused to stop speaking over her allotted time.

During the meeting Bitan chided Hannah Cohen, the aunt of Inbar Haiman, for speaking too long, saying she was “repeating herself” and that others needed to speak.

When she continued talking and yelling at him, telling him that he would “hear me again another 1,000 times,” he ordered her ejected.

“Bring the girl home and you won’t see me here again,” Cohen tells him.

Bitan eventually relents under pressure from other committee members and lets her remain.

תקצרי – חלק ב': דוד ביטן ביקש להוציא מהדיון בוועדת הכנסת את דודתה של ענבר היימן ז"ל, אשר גופתה מוחזקת בידי חמאס.
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Haiman, 27, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. She has since been declared dead by the military and her body remains in Gaza.

It’s not the first time Bitan has clashed with hostage relatives.

Several weeks ago he interrupted the testimony of Sari Gat, aunt of Carmel Gat, a hostage who executed killed in Hamas captivity, and told her to “be quick.”