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Near PM’s home, daughter of hostage urges him to take ‘brave step to bring home those still alive’

20 January 2024, 1:20 am 1 Edit
Ela Ben Ami holds a poster with a photo of her father Ohad, who is being held hostage by Hamas since being kidnapped during the Oct. 7 terror onslaught, during a protest near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the northern coastal city of Caesarea, January 20, 2024. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Ela Ben Ami holds a poster with a photo of her father Ohad, who is being held hostage by Hamas since being kidnapped during the Oct. 7 terror onslaught, during a protest near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the northern coastal city of Caesarea, January 20, 2024. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas have begun setting up tents near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea, where they are camping out overnight as part of a protest urging the return of their loved ones from the Gaza Strip.

“It’s gone from pleading for their return to pleading to save their lives. This is a matter of life or death,” says Ela Ben Ami, whose father Ohad is still captive in Gaza after being kidnapped on October 7 alongside her mother Raz, who was released by Hamas as part of weeklong truce in late November.

She says the families are demanding an “international conference of Qatar, Egypt, the US and Israel, in which they sit in the same room and reach an understanding on how to bring the hostages home.”

Turning to Netanyahu, Ela Ben Ami calls on him to take “a brave step to bring home those still alive, and the bodies [of those killed] to be buried in Israel, as they deserve.”

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