National Unity leader Benny Gantz harshly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu after the latter referred to the brief detention of two of his top aides in the Qatargate affair as them being “held hostage.”
“While you free up your time for interrogations, 59 hostages are counting the seconds,” Gantz posted on X.
Netanyahu, in a recorded video message, said he had immediately made time to testify when informed by police that his input was needed in the ongoing investigation involving his associates.
“Our hostages, who were kidnapped on your watch — they are not those who worked with Qatar during the war and were detained for one day for interrogation, but people who have been languishing with the enemy in the tunnels for 542 days,” Gantz wrote.
He went on to accuse Netanyahu of being out of touch with the nation’s pain, stating, “Prime Minister — You are simply disconnected. This people deserve a leader who will clear his entire schedule, call the members of the negotiating team, and give them one task: a deal to return all the kidnapped,” urging the government to focus its energy on achieving a deal that would finally secure the release of all hostages.
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