Leaked audio of heated meeting reveals hostages’ fury at Netanyahu
Former hostage says Israelis still held in Hamas Tunnels Netanyahu is flooding
By Irene Nasser, Tim Lister and Richard Greene, CNN.com, Wed December 6, 2023
CNN — Leaked audio recordings of a meeting between freed Israeli hostages and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have revealed considerable anger at the government’s conduct, as well as the enduring terror of captivity by Hamas in Gaza.
Audio of the meeting between the former hostages, relatives of some still being held, and Israel’s war cabinet on Tuesday was leaked, with parts of it published on Israeli news site ynet.
It comes amid building pressure on Netanyahu to secure the release of the remaining captives, and scrutiny of Israel’s intensifying military campaign in Gaza.
Ynet also reported that Netanyahu’s efforts to respond to the hostages and relatives were met with tense and angry remarks.
A female abductee freed with her children – but without her husband, who remains in captivity – is heard saying: “The feeling we had was that no one was doing anything for us. The fact is that I was in a hiding place that was shelled and we had to be smuggled out and we were wounded. That’s besides the helicopter that shot at us on the way to Gaza.”
She adds: “You say you have no information. You have no information. The fact that we were shelled, the fact that no one knew anything about where we were… You claim that there is Israeli intelligence. But the fact is that we are being shelled. My husband was separated from us three days before we returned to Israel and taken to the [Hamas] tunnels” under Gaza.
Israel has launched intense air bombardments on Gaza since Hamas’ October 7 attacks on the country, which resulted in the capture of more than 240 people. The conflict has resulted in a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and led to the deaths of more than 15,000 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, which cites sources from the Hamas-controlled enclave.
“And you want to topple the Hamas government, to show that you have bigger balls? There is no life here that is more important than others,” a hostage adds. “None of us there deserve any less treatment than any resident of Israel. Return them all....not in a month, two months or a year.”
Referring to reports that the Israeli military is considering flooding Hamas tunnels in Gaza, she continues: “And you are talking about washing the tunnels with sea water? You are shelling the route of tunnels in the exact area where they are. “
What is the idf supposed to do !! Stop the war ?
Some people don’t have common sense
Terrorists need to be killed at all costs or this will happen over and over and over again
These Israeli leftists are a virus in society their constant appeasement has weakened Israel
hogwash ... it’ll take days to even partially fill those tunnels, and even if its just hours, there’s plenty of time to evacuate ... besides, just half filling the tunnels renders them unusable ...