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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Report finds Netanyahu hasn’t met with families of the 62 soldiers killed in Gaza war since start of 2025
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not met with any of the families of the 62 soldiers who have been killed since the start of the year in the ongoing war in Gaza, the Haaretz daily reports, citing information that it received from the Prime Minister’s Office after a freedom of information request.
While Netanyahu has met the families of killed hostages in the first months of this year a few times, he has only paid condolence visits to two families who lost soldiers in previous wars and whose bodies were recovered this year — Zvi Feldman, who had been missing since the First Lebanon War, and Oron Shaul, who was killed in the 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, the report says.
Up until July 8, Netanyahu has met with freed captives and relatives of hostages 50 times and held phone calls with them 36 times throughout the entire war — including six meetings organized by the right-wing Gvura and Tikva forums, according to Haaretz.
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