In a visit with the bereaved family of 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman in Nahal Oz, Sara Netanyahu says the Israeli 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip led to the present situation.
“All the troubles began since the disengagement,” she says, according to Walla. Her husband, the finance minister in 2005, was a vocal opponent of the plan and resigned before its implementation.
She tells the Tragerman family that Netanyahu had mentioned Daniel’s death to UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, but says that his death is unlikely to be the subject of international investigation.
Sara Netanyahu also criticizes several Knesset members who, she says, took to Facebook to “gain political points.” Those Knesset members acted “irresponsibly,” she says.
Daniel Tragerman, 4, seen during a visit at the presidential residence in Jerusalem in early August. Daniel was killed by shrapnel from a mortar shell that hit his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Friday, August 22. He was laid to rest on August 24. (Photo by Flash90)
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