Kidnapped families in the house of Benny Gantz/Omer Raviv
The families of the abductees arrived this morning (Monday) at the home of the war cabinet member in Rosh Ha'Ain demanding that he raise their voice in the government.
"We are fighting our government, we need to hear from you that we are not the enemy" the families were angry.
"For the prime minister we feel we are the enemy, on Channel 14 they say we are the enemy - you entered the government to protect us and we still feel we are the enemy," the families told Gantz.
"We need to hear you protect us. As we leftists, as we Ashkenazis, now we are the enemy and you have to protect us."
"We are sorry that we woke you up this morning, because we can't do it anymore, we have no life," said the families of the abductees.
"We didn't come to disturb, we are no longer able to think about what is happening to them there. A one-year-old boy, I went looking for him on October 8 on the road, we didn't find him. It can't be, he's a year old, there are 84-year-old people there. I And you might have lasted, they can't last. The girls there are raped every day."
"We need to hear you protect us."
Gantz and the kidnapped families/official website, Omer Raviv
"There are 18-19 year old soldiers there - what did we grow up on? We don't leave anyone behind. Take the 5,000 (prisoners), give them to them, we will take them back (the kidnapped) and finish them off, you know how to do it - but Not when there are kidnappers there."
Another family friend told Gantz that the restoration of the country will not happen without the return of the abductees.
"How will we restore this place when we abandon our brothers and sisters in the captivity of Hamas?", she said. "There is no such thing. Why should we beg for something that is obvious?"
Gantz answered them that "We want to return the abductees quickly, alive and all. That's what we want. The most likely chance is to succeed through a plan, and where there are other options, that's what we'll do."
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"How will we restore this place when we abandon our brothers and sisters?"
Gantz and the kidnapped families/official website, Omer Raviv
The families were outraged that a team was not sent to Cairo, and asked why there was no Israeli team in the negotiations at the summit in Egypt.
Gantz replied that "the team will arrive there so that the conditions will mature, we don't want to go there to bring nothing. You are not fighting your government."
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