Dekal Lifshitz, the grandson of Oded who is being held captive by Hamas and Yochaved who was released from there, spoke today (Friday) to Professor Aryeh Eldad and Ron Koffman on 103fm, and expressed support for a deal that would return the abductees despite the prices that Israel will have to pay as has been published so far.
"We welcome and support any deal that the government makes, and we will give it immediate support," Lifschitz said at the beginning of the conversation.
"In addition to the fact that this is about our families and this is something basic that needs to be done, it is the government's duty to bring them home. It hurts to hear that there are people who still don't understand this. We are waiting for information just like you, sitting with our eyes on the media and waiting to get answers about what exactly is happening."
Lifshitz continued: "The deal is always difficult. I don't see how we can pull off a deal here that neither includes heavy prices nor does it include returning the people home."
According to him, "We support that as long as we can bring them home, we want everyone including everyone and there is no question here. Right now we are in the best position we have had in the last two months, and if we wait another 15 days, we won't have those left who want to be released." .
"We want everyone, including everyone."
Oded Lifshitz/courtesy of those photographed
Due to the demands of Hamas in recent weeks for the deal, some will argue that the struggle of the families of the abductees is causing the terrorist organization's positions to harden.
However, Lifshitz rejected these claims and said: "I don't think our struggle caused prices to rise in such a way, and that does not give legitimacy to Hamas to do that."
Koffman reinforced his statements and claimed that the price tag was given in previous deals that were carried out, including the Shalit deal.
"Absolutely. The price tag has been created for a long time," Lifshitz declared, referring to the blockade of humanitarian aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip: "I am not in favor of stopping anything, because in the end I am not sitting in front of all the details. But when I look at the dry details, for me it is very It hurts to see that humanitarian aid comes in for nothing. We don't get information out, and I don't know what's going on in the rooms."
"It hurts me too to know that I don't know anything about my grandfather. It's been over three months that I don't know what his health is. He's stuck there, and we're waiting for something to move eventually. These trucks, you never know if it's helping him or just Hurts us. In a sense right now it only hurts us," he concluded.
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