Israel: Families of Hostages to Boycott Oct 7 Memorial If Bibi Continues to Boycott Ceasefire

Mourners attend the funeral of Yagev Buchshtab, one of the six hostages whose bodies were retrieved from Gaza and brought to Israel in a military operation, in Kibbutz Nirim, southern Israel, on Wednesday.

Bibi tried to kill all of the hostages when they were being taken hostage. We have the video of the IDF using Apache helicopters to kill Jews so they would not be taken hostage.

If he was willing to kill them then, why would anyone think he cares about their lives now? It doesn’t even make sense.

CNN:

A group representing the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza plans to boycott the government’s commemoration of the first anniversary of the October 7 attack, frustrated by the slow progress in negotiations to bring back their loved ones.

“The Israeli government’s glaring inability to secure the hostages’ return makes any attempt to conclude this chapter impossible,” the Hostage Families Forum said in a statement on Wednesday. “Since October 7, the situation has remained stagnant.”

The government is scheduled to hold a formal memorial event on October 7, a year after Hamas’ attack on Israel. Transport Minister Miri Regev, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, has been appointed by the government to organize the memorial.

“A year has passed since citizens were abandoned in the greatest disaster in Israel’s history. One-hundred-and-nine hostages have yet to return, and the living have not been brought back for rehabilitation, nor have the bodies of the murdered been returned for burial,” the forum added.

The forum said it would instead join communities of the Gaza border area and southern Israel to mark October 7.

Monthslong talks to release the hostages in exchange for a ceasefire in Gaza have repeatedly stalled as mediators the United States, Qatar and Egypt ramp up efforts to reach an agreement. Israel insists that it won’t end the war until Hamas is eliminated from Gaza and has demanded that it retain control over the Gaza-Egypt border and restrict the movement of armed men from the south of the strip to its north. Hamas has rejected those demands.

Hostage families have repeatedly accused Netanyahu of stalling negotiations and abandoning the captives to keep his governing coalition intact. Hardline ministers in his cabinet have threatened to collapse the government if he agrees to end the war.

The boycott announcement came after a number of kibbutzim (Israeli agricultural communes) from the Gaza border area announced they would not participate in the memorial. According to Israeli public broadcaster Kan, a CNN affiliate, many of those kibbutzim that were attacked on October 7, including Be’eri, Re’im, Nirim, Kfar Aza, Nahal Oz, Nir Oz, Yad Mordechai and Nir Yitzhak, will boycott the event.

It’s not surprising that Bibi is callous with regards to the hostages. You can get an idea about him and his thinking and not be surprised that he doesn’t care if hostages die.

It is, however, a bit strange how many Jew supporters of Bibi do not care if these hostages die. You would think there would be more of a movement in Israel to get the hostages back, instead of supporting Bibi’s plan to kill everyone in Gaza, including all of the hostages.

And yet, mostly, it is only the direct families and friends of the hostages that are making a point to demand he get these people back.