Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks by phone with the mother of hostage Elkana Bohbot, a day after she criticized the Prime Minister’s Office and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, the new head of the hostage negotiating team, for not speaking with her or her family.
Elkana’s two brothers also joined the conversation, says the PMO.
“No one is speaking with us,” Ruhama Bohbot said last night when asked by Channel 12 if any government officials, including Dermer and Netanyahu, had contacted the family.
Hamas published a propaganda video yesterday evening showing Israeli hostages Bohbot and Yosef-Haim Ohana, who were both kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7 and are still being held in Gaza by the terror group.
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