Relatives of kidnapped people reproach Netanyahu for backing down from the agreement proposal

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June 23. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Association of Families of Israeli Hostages in Gaza criticized the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, this Sunday because it believes that he has backed down from the terms that the Israeli Government itself proposed for an agreement for the release of the hostages.

The association referred to Netanyahu’s statements in an interview with Israeli television Channel 14 in which he stated that the most intense phase of the military offensive against the Gaza Strip “will soon come to an end.”

The association considers that ending the war in Gaza without achieving the return of the hostages is an “unprecedented national failure” and a renunciation of the declared objectives of the war as such, according to the Israeli press.

Netanyahu would thus be “abandoning” “120 kidnapped people”, which means failing to fulfill his moral, State obligation towards his own citizens.

“We are not going to allow the Government to evade its commitment to our loved ones. Netanyahu has to bring them all back,” the group stressed.