Two relatives whose loved ones are believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas said they could not move forward until all the hostages were freed – and one said he was open to a ceasefire if it meant bringing them home.
“I’m calling on the government to take any deal now…to bring home the hostages,” Daniel Lifshitz, 35, told The Post.
“It is a very, very important thing. Calling a truce to do so? Sure.”
Lifshitz’s grandparents, 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz and Oded Lifshitz, 83, were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz and their home destroyed in a Hamas sneak attack on October 7.
Yocheved was one of four hostages released last month, while Oded is still believed to be in the hands of the terrorist group.
“He was the greatest peace activist in the world,” Lifshitz said of his grandfather, who helped found Kibbutz Nir Oz with his wife in 1955.
The bereaved relatives of two Israelis now believed to be being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip say they cannot move forward until all hostages are released. Courtesy of Daniel Lifshitz
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“The mission of the world today is to free the hostages,[Eventually] we can talk about the future. But now we can’t while the hostages are there [in Gaza],” Lifshitz lamented.
Nir Shani, 47, agreed that the Israeli government had failed the hostages’ families.
Her son, Amit, 16, was abducted by Hamas in front of his mother and younger sister in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7.
Nir Shani, 47, agreed that the Israeli government had failed the hostage’s family because his son, Amit, 16, was abducted by Hamas in front of his mother and younger sister at Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7. Courtesy of Nir Shani
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The Israel-Hamas War: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launched a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches its biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early morning ambush on Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli cities.
The terrorists killed over 1,200 Israelis, injured over 4,200, and took at least 200 hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly announced, “We are at war,” and promised Hamas would pay “an unprecedented price.”
Gaza’s Ministry of Health – which is controlled by Hamas – reports at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.
“We need any help we can get, the government has its own priorities, and I’m not sure that getting hostages is number one,” he said.
“I think they want to defeat Hamas and to state, in my opinion, that should be done before October 7, and now that can be done later after the hostage situation will be resolved.”
Shani’s house in Kibbutz Be’eri had burned down, and it would probably take a year to rebuild, he explained.
Even so, he admits he is not sure he wants to go back there.
“I need to know it’s a safe place,” he said.
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