The Likud party responded to remarks by Nitzan Alon, who served as head of the Hostages and Missing Persons Headquarters and said at the Herzliya Conference at Reichman University that ‘the leadership refused complete hostage deals in the name of “absolute victory,” which is a lie.’ Likud stated that ‘Nitzan Alon asked to surrender to Hamas’ terms, to leave Gaza, to stop the war, and all this while he was leaking briefings from the most secret discussions and harming the negotiations. It’s good that Prime Minister Netanyahu didn’t listen to him, because if the prime minister had listened to him, we would not have completed the conquest of Rafah, the Philadelphi Corridor, the elimination of Nasrallah, Haniyeh, Deif, the pager operation, the establishment of security zones, gaining control over most of the Gaza Strip, and the return of all our hostages down to the last one.’
