\u201cGal Hirsch, shame on you! Who are you to speak about us or our families? Who are you to say anything to my 70-year-old parents, who had to tell a two-year-old baby that his mother was murdered and his father \u2018was lost\u2019? Who are you to tell grieving parents that they could have gotten their children back alive but because of the negotiations, they lost their lives,\u201d Levy wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\tBy signing up, you agree to the terms<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhen the documentation of us [in Gaza] (including what wasn\u2019t published) came to you, you chose to remain silent. Now it\u2019s we who are to blame. We! The ones you didn\u2019t look after, the ones you abandoned!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I came back, I heard the name Gal Hirsch a few times. Once he called my mother and asked her, \u2018Would Or like to talk to the prime minister?\u2019 So I said no. Because I don\u2019t need favors from anyone. And now I see how the election campaign is the only thing that matters. Changing the narrative of what\u2019s been going on here for more than two years,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n \t Einav Zangauker, the firebrand mother of released hostage Matan Zangauker, responded to Hirsch\u2019s allegation with a post to X<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cLucky that President Trump thought differently, and thanks to him and thanks to our wonderful people who went out to fight for our values and didn\u2019t give up, Matan is here at home.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNetanyahu\u2019s floor rag continues the campaign of lies and rewriting history. (This won\u2019t work for you!!),\u201d she added.<\/p>\n \t Carmit Palty Katzir, daughter of former hostage Hannah Katzir, 78, who died shortly after her release<\/a> and whose brother Eldad died in captivity, wrote in a post to Facebook, \u201cHave you no shame to speak about urgency, about the protests that put pressure on the American government that saved us from you?\u201d<\/p>\n Hirsch, she wrote, \u201cwas responsible for the safety of my mother and brother. You were at their funerals, so let\u2019s talk about the feeling of urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou saw my mother in a video from captivity on 9.11.23, you saw what a terrible state she was in, and even then, there was no feeling of urgency. She was returned after 49 days in captivity, and within 10 days, she was already sedated and intubated. No hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou had 99 days to get Eldad back alive, but urgency is for those who are hysterical. You brought him back, no hurry, in a bag,\u201d Palty Katzir continued. In April 2024, the IDF announced that it had recovered the body<\/a> of Eldad Katzir from Gaza.<\/p>\n Yonatan Shimriz, brother of Alon Shimriz<\/a> who, along with two others, escaped captivity in Gaza but was mistakenly shot by IDF troops as they approached them, told Hirsch he could not know what the families went through.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen your brother is kidnapped, and you hear from another hostage who came back what they are doing to him, and you stop sleeping, and food has no taste, and you are ashamed to get under the covers at night, and you are ashamed to live, then that feeling of urgency, you will feel it on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n In a message to Hirsch posted on X, Lishay Miran-Lavi, wife of hostage Omri Miran, who was eventually released from captivity in a ceasefire deal, wrote, \u201cI can also go and sit in [TV] studios and talk about the attitude that we, the families, were subjected to for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAbout the gaslighting, the false promises, the meetings with senior officials in the Trump administration but not with the Israeli prime minister (scheduling issues, after all). About the time that Trump told us that there was a deal, but you clarified that it still needs approval from the government.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut I won\u2019t do it, it is beneath us,\u201d she wrote, noting that families are now focusing on rehabilitation. \u201cThat is what is important. All the rest is background noise.\u201d<\/p>\n Miran-Lavi included a photo of her two young daughters, \u201cwho got their father back after two years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u05d2\u05dc, \u2014 Lishay Miran-Lavi (@LishayLM) January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Several hostages have said that their captors showed them footage of the protests in Tel Aviv, and that it gave them hope<\/a>, raising their spirits to know that there was such strong support and that they were at the forefront of the public mind.\n<\/p>\n In his interview with Haaretz, Hirsch also stressed that he wanted to clarify his intention. \u201cI can\u2019t say that I am against solidarity events in Israel on the matter of the hostages. I am in favor. It shows the power of the Israeli people. On the other hand, claims that were attached to those protests\u2026 all kinds of fabrications about [Israel] torpedoing deals and Israel being the obstinate party, gave Hamas a position of power in the international arena, in the negotiation rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/F250726AVS108-640x400.jpg\")
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\n\t\tFormer hostage Or Levy speaks during a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, at \u2018Hostage Square\u2019 in Tel Aviv, July 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni\/Flash90)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/F251018CG0013-e1761493758572-640x400.jpg\")
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\n\t\tEinav Zangauker, mother of released hostage Matan Zangauker, speaks at Tel Aviv\u2019s Hostages Square on October 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg\/Flash90)<\/p>\n
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