Likud MK shouts at hostage’s father: ‘Your contemptible words are putting your son in Hamas-ISIS dungeons for many more years’

Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo shouts at the father of hostage Nimrod Cohen at the Knesset on January 13, 2025 (Screen grab/Knesset TV)
Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo shouts at the father of hostage Nimrod Cohen at the Knesset on January 13, 2025 (Screen grab/Knesset TV)

Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo shouts at the father of hostage Nimrod Cohen, saying that his “contemptible words are putting your son in the Hamas-ISIS dungeons for many more years” during a meeting of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset.

Revivo makes the comment after Yehuda Cohen told a Knesset panel that he was willing to go to the International Criminal Court to tell them that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was responsible for crimes against not only Palestinians, but also Israelis.

Cohen notes that 400 soldiers have been killed fighting in Gaza. He says, “If these [ICC] arrest warrants can make Netanyahu abandon his personal interests and make a deal including the very last hostage, then that is what I will do.”

Cohen says that he is making the statement as the father of a soldier held hostage in Gaza who also has a daughter serving in the IDF and another son who is an officer in the reserves.

He is interrupted by Revivo, who points a finger at him and shouts.

Nimrod Cohen, a soldier then aged 19, was taken hostage to Gaza on October 7 from Nahal Oz.

Committee chair MK Simcha Rothman then calls a break in the proceedings.

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