Relative of hostage reports ‘very respectable’ meeting with PM’s wife; bashes Obama

Yael Angel, whose nephew Ofir is held hostage in Gaza, tells Channel 12 news that the families of the hostages had a “very respectable” meeting yesterday with Sara Netanyahu.

She says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined part of the meeting, which lasted some two-and-a-half hours.

According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, the prime minister’s wife told the families: “I know that you have not had a moment’s rest. Every day that goes by without your loved ones is an endless pain. My heart is with you; all of our hearts are with you.”

She promised the families that the prime minister “will do everything to bring our hostages, your loved ones, safely back home.”

Yael Angel, whose nephew Ofir is held hostage in Gaza, speaks to Channel 12 news, November 10, 2023 (Screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Angel on Channel 12 also refers to former president Barack Obama’s criticism of Israel’s response to the Hamas massacres. “Two hundred and forty people are held hostage and the world is silent, and there are ‘buts’ and ‘perhapses’. I’d like to see Mr. Obama if one of his daughters was held hostage by Hamas. In two days, she’d be out, and there’d be no ‘buts’. There are no buts or perhapses,” she says. “Hamas can be destroyed.”