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‘He’s unfit’: Israel fiercely divided over Netanyahu’s hostage response | Israel-Hamas war
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All that the Eshel family know is that Roni last texted her mother from a friend’s phone in the early hours of Saturday 7 October, during the unprecedented incursion by Hamas militants that has so far left more than 1,300 Israelis dead.
Soldiers such as Roni Eshel, who was stationed near the fortified three-layer fence that surrounds the Gaza strip, were supposed to be “the eyes of the country”, her grandmother said, but no one had listened when they said they had seen unusual movements on the border, as so much of the Israeli military had been deployed on the West Bank.
The Israeli public is fiercely divided over how the state has handled the major breach of its security, with the issue of the hostages becoming a lightning rod for criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the crisis.
But some of their supporters, who had also gathered in Tel Aviv, said the prime minister’s decision to prioritise striking Hamas over freeing the hostages was the latest sign that he should step aside, after a combined 16 years in power.
Tzvia Shmuelvich, who served in the Israeli military during the 1973 war against a coalition of neighbouring states, said: “Even the head of the army, the chief of the Shin Bet [domestic intelligence service] said ‘we are guilty, we take responsibility, we admit we are to blame’ – that they failed.
Tzvika Mor, who joined the meeting with Netanyahu to discuss his missing son, Eitan, told a local radio station that he favoured attacking Gaza over hostage negotiations.
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