Anger in Israel against Netanyahu after receiving the bodies of 4 prisoners who were held in an area where the army operated for 4 months
A state of anger prevails in Israel against its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; after receiving the bodies of 4 Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli media suggested that they had been detained in an area where the army operated for 4 months.
On Thursday, the Israeli army radio said that the four prisoners whose bodies were handed over today were detained in the area east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, where the army forces operated for a period of 4 months.
Questions arose in the Israeli media about the reason for the killing of these four Israelis, who Palestinian factions confirm were captured alive and killed in a deliberate Israeli bombardment of their detention centers in Gaza.
The four bodies belong to Sheri Bibas and her two children, Kfir and Ariel, and prisoner Oded Lifshitz, and were handed over as part of the seventh batch of the first phase of the current ceasefire agreement.
This is the first time that Hamas has handed over the bodies of Israeli prisoners, within the framework of the agreement in effect between Hamas and Israel since January 19.
Netanyahu, on the other hand, who is wanted for crimes against humanity, wanted to turn the scene of retrieving the bodies into a political victory for him, but it actually turned into resentment and anger; which forced him to withdraw his intention to participate in the ceremony to receive the bodies.
Netanyahu withdrew at the last minute from participating in the ceremony to receive the bodies of the prisoners.
The Israeli Prime Minister studied the possibility of participating in receiving the bodies, and as part of the arrangements for participation, instructions were issued to field officials to prepare for his arrival, but at the last minute it was decided that he would not attend.
The decision to cancel Netanyahu’s participation was taken after the families of the prisoners protested the publication of the names of the four dead prisoners before their identities were confirmed, and criticism of Netanyahu’s office for publishing the names before the forensic institute had finally identified them.
Israelis, including politicians and journalists, expressed their anger at Netanyahu over the killing of some prisoners and the delay in reaching a prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas, due to his political interests.
