ABC / Reuters | 23 January 2024
Yet again we see the lies perpetrated by Netanyahu in his claims that there is no offer regarding Israeli hostages – it must be heartbreaking for the families of those hostages to know their own government cares so little about their return or welfare.
Families of Israeli hostages have interrupted a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem, demanding politicians do more to try to free their loved ones.
One woman held up pictures of three family members held in Gaza: “Just one I’d like to get back alive, one out of three!” she cried after pushing into the Knesset Finance Committee discussion on Monday (local time).
Roughly 20 protesters, clad in black T-shirts, held up signs reading: “You will not sit here while they die there.”
“Release them now, now, now!” they chanted.
A statement released by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later in the day said he had told representatives of the group that Hamas did not have an offer on the table when it came to releasing hostages.
“There is no real proposal by Hamas. It’s not true,” the statement quoted Mr Netanyahu as telling the group.
“I am saying this as clearly as I can because there are so many incorrect statements which are certainly agonising for you.
“Conversely, there is an initiative on our part, on which I shall not elaborate.”
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