Kidnapped families block Ayalon, February 10, 2024/Official website, Eitan Salonim
A rally for the release of the abductees is taking place this evening at the Tel Aviv Museum plaza on Shaul Hamelech Boulevard.
The rally is held under the title: "The moment of truth - life or death".
In the message of the families of the abductees it was said "Stop the government campaign against us. The price of abandonment will be a stain for generations."
At the rally, members of families of kidnapped and murdered people and former senior officials of the security forces speak.
The artists Danny Bessan and Vern Denker perform at the rally.
At the same time, members of abducted families block Kaplan Street, in a demonstration that the police declared illegal.
Haley Cooper and Or Nochomowitz, 10 years old, the grandchildren of the abductee Amiram Cooper, said from the stage: "It's been 127 days that you don't write greetings, don't whistle tunes, and don't eat Friday meals with us. It's hard for me to imagine what you're going through, are you cold? Are you being taken care of Do you eat? Do you know that every Shabbat we come to the abductees' square that we shout for your release, that we do everything for you to return? I ask you members of the government to think that it is your grandfather there. Every day when I get up in the morning I ask myself why my 85-year-old grandfather needs To sit for 127 days in the captivity of Hamas, without food, without water, he barely has air to breathe."
Healy Cooper said: "I miss so much the exciting greetings he would write to me, the scooter rides around the kibbutz, going to the pool and Grandpa bringing us pretzels and apples. It was the most delicious. I miss Grandma's strawberry cake, which she no longer makes because she is sad that Grandpa doesn't With us. Why isn't anyone saving him? I'm afraid, he doesn't have much time. Netanyahu, I'm turning to you. You're our prime minister. Bring my grandfather and all the abductees home now."
Danny, the brother of the abductee Itzik Elgaret, said in a speech: "The price we are required to pay is not for the abductees - we are required to pay for the neglect and failure of the government and the security system. The abductees are not to blame for their abduction. The Israeli government is running a campaign of renouncing the abductees. I see in each of my friends The government and the prime minister are directly responsible for the release of the abductees. They bled on your heads. If they don't return - the state will lose its moral position to sacrifice their lives for it."
He added: "A country in which 1,400 of its residents were murdered in one day, women who were raped, children who were murdered, settlements that were burned down. The country no longer controls the north or the south. It has lost its sovereignty. The only thing that will restore trust in the country and its leadership is the end of the war and the return of the kidnapped. Prime Minister Fatah In the campaign of intimidation, we know him from 'Pers will divide Jerusalem' and 'The Arabs in buses.' , Independence Day, who will dare to light a torch for Israel's glory when Israel's glory is waiting in the tunnels? Hamas is a damned terrorist organization. Sooner or later it will violate the guarantees. Then the Israeli government will be able to come to a final reckoning with it."
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