State Comptroller Yosef Shapira says he has asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to promptly respond to claims about the efforts to return the remains of an IDF soldier whose body is being held by the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip.
Shapira says in a statement that he recently met with the family of Hadar Goldin, an IDF officer who was killed during the 2014 summer conflict in Gaza, and received from them “a detailed document regarding the State of Israel’s handling of the return of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin to Israel.”
The family of the late IDF soldier Hadar Goldin speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on November 5, 2017, announcing their intention to file a petition to the High Court. (Flash90)
Without specifying what points the Goldin family made regarding the matter, Shapria says that he has sent a letter to Netanyahu “to get his response to the claims of the Goldin family.”
After receiving the prime minister’s input, Shapria, who is state ombudsman, will decide how his office will deal with the matter, the statement says.
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