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Likud MK says every freed hostage is ‘brainwashed by Hamas’
Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks during a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem on March 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
Firebrand Likud MK Tally Gotliv says that every hostage who has returned from captivity in Gaza is “brainwashed by Hamas.”
“I don’t care what the hostage [Eden Alexander] does, I don’t judge him, every hostage is brainwashed by Hamas,” says Gotliv in an interview of the Knesset TV channel. “Every hostage says what Hamas forces them to hear.”
Questioned by the interviewer on her comments, Gotliv then contradicts herself, saying “I won’t say a word about any hostage who left Gaza.”
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