Ya’alon pledges to return bodies of MIA soldiers

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon vows to do everything in his power to return the bodies of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, who were killed in the Gaza summer conflict and whose bodies were not retrieved.

“It is our primary moral obligation, first and foremost to the families and to the IDF soldiers and commanders that are sent on life-threatening missions, and to the people of Israel,” he says.

On Tuesday night, Shaul’s family said it was being kept in the dark on the progress of efforts to return the bodies.

“We have a feeling at the moment that Oron has been forgotten,” his father Herzl told Channel 2 News. “We never forget him. At all the meetings we’ve been to we’ve received the same promises that they’ll bring back Oron, we don’t know when. It keeps repeating itself, the same statements that Oron will come home.”